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A comment on Laws to Save Journalism (or The Most Unintentionally Funny Thing I've Read All Day).
- make it illegal for search engines to index sites without asking for explicit permission from each and every site
- make it illegal for people to report on "hot news" that has been broken by one specific outlet first without paying that first outlet
- remove monopoly caps on news organisations, allowing them to become even bigger than news corp (as if that wasn't big enough already)
- give some tax breaks to the news industry and pay people to post ads in newspapers instead of craigslist
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What world do the authors of this article live in? I sure hope it's not mine.
- make it illegal for search engines to index sites without asking for explicit permission from each and every site
- make it illegal for people to report on "hot news" that has been broken by one specific outlet first without paying that first outlet
- remove monopoly caps on news organisations, allowing them to become even bigger than news corp (as if that wasn't big enough already)
- give some tax breaks to the news industry and pay people to post ads in newspapers instead of craigslist
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What world do the authors of this article live in? I sure hope it's not mine.