Google Declaring War on the Web

Re:Google Declaring War on the Web by barnabee on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @06:47PM (#48215358)

Needs to be inverted.

Tax excess tech profits that derive from the efforts of others and use the proceeds to fund living artists.

Vaguely analogous to levies on blank cassettes that went to offset piracy. Give the money directly to actual artists, not labels/publishers, though.

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Re:Google Declaring War on the Web by wahnfrieden on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @06:56PM (#48215447)

You’re describing a social revolution. Otherwise there is no way that leaders whose power over us corrupts them would want to put that into law.

The cassette reference was a tax on consumers to send money upward. What you’re describing is the complete inverse.

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Re:Google Declaring War on the Web by lkrubner on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @07:22PM (#48215711)

No, it is exactly the same thing. The tax on cassettes raised money that was given to artists.

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Re:Google Declaring War on the Web by wahnfrieden on Thursday May 21, 2026 @12:04AM (#48217740)

Thanks for correcting

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Re:Google Declaring War on the Web by perilunar on Thursday May 21, 2026 @03:52AM (#48219261)

Don't tax profits (or incomes) at all. Tax land and resource use instead. And treat the knowledge that was used to train the AIs as one of those resources.

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