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> The entire point of art. 11 is to transfer money from Google News (and other aggregators, like Facebook) to publishers. This also covers search.

Honestly, it doesn't seem a bad thing to me. But lat's see how Google plays it out.

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dnautics7y ago· 4 in thread

You don't think this will eventually come to screw the little guy?

vkou7y ago

Who is the little guy, and why are we optimizing for him, instead of making the world better for everyone?

I mean, I think the link tax is backwards, but a vague emotional appeal to the health of... a mom and pop internet news site...(?) is not the argument I'd use.

Internet is supposed to be THE free platform a mom and pop internet news site can prosper. You are, at this very moment, here in HN, in a mom and pop internet news site.

Optimize for the little guy so there can be growth. "Better for everyone" is stasis because "everyone" includes all the people that already have disproportional slices of pie.

Natanael_L7y ago

The little guy is duckduckgo, small forums and blogs. You think it's fine to erase them from the web if they try to comment on the news?

tomp7y ago· 1 in thread

It's "not bad" in the same way as communism is "not bad" - i.e. in theory, but it doesn't actually exist in practice.

kazinator7y ago

Oh, some would say that communism is already despicable in theory alone.

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