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Good. Hopefully other states follow. The headline might as well be, “After Decades of Freebooting Their Content, Google Threatens to Kill News Rather Than Pay Journalists for Their Work”

Google is now the modern, lazy business equivalent of a bum asking for free stuff in exchange for “exposure”



Exactly this. The sooner we stop pulling the wool over our own eyes on what Google and Meta actually do with respect to "news", globally, the better.


If they genuinely had a problem with it, they can block google via robots.txt




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