Anyone notice that the newspaper founded to champion free markets, free enterprise, de-regulation and small government is now ~50% corporate welfare propaganda?pic.twitter.com/5wtQfEp3gX
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The same logic is used to justify unpaid internships. "Don't like it, don't do it."
Not so weird if you consider it applies to writers as well as media outlets. There were people who were making a living off blogging in 2008 who can't now because Google has eaten up all the ad revenue.
I'll ignore the weird comparison of newspaper companies with sweatshop labourers and ask instead: in your proposed legal frame-work, does everybody have to pay to link to other sites, or just those two companies?
I think the large social networks can properly be classified as public utilities and regulated as such. I'll leave it to the policy wonks to work out the details (I believe several countries are experimenting with ideas on this).
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