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Re:Facebook to restore news in Australia after last-minute d... by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @03:56PM (#26242766)
Is HN using the data it gets from HN users to sell services to advertisers. You dont think there is a non-commercial versus commercial distinction.
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Re:Facebook to restore news in Australia after last-minute d... by madeofpalk on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:49PM (#26245178)
So you think that any commercial website (is HN, ran by a VC firm, even non-commercial?) should have to pay the website for links its users submit?
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Re:Facebook to restore news in Australia after last-minute d... by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @12:23AM (#26246871)
No. But with respect to how Google News and Faceook use "news" to support their respective rackets, I think this is different from the example of HN. For one, HN is not trying to compete for advertiser payments with every website that gets submitted. "Commercial" in the sense I am using it means deriving revenue from the use of news. Perhaps HN does that somehow but to support its VC business but that seems a poor comparison to the likes of Google/Facebook. Big difference between Google News and HN, or a Facebook "news feed" and HN.
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