@AssociatedPress @business-and-finance-AssociatedPress
The very idea of a #linktax /publishers right is incredible stupid and unjustified.
Digital platforms are perfectly right to deny legacy media paymemt for something that legacy media benefits from far more than the other way arround.
The internet does not need legacy media, but legacy media needs the internet. With this basic fact out of the way, it is painfully obvious who should pay whom - if at all.
We made a similar mistake in Europe with the idiotic copyright reform of 2019. It achieved absolutly nothing besides making life more miserable for every european internet user and further reducing the already weak european digital economy.
European search engines - that cannot afford years of litigation from greedy legacy media - now pay for news while Google - who can afford any law suit while legacy media cannot afford to be not listed on google - does not.
The idea is idiotic and should be trashed.