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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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Or take responsibility for creating the situation with a nonsensical link tax.
I don't like Facebook, but this idea that Facebook or Google is stealing from a news organization by linking to it is about as asinine as game companies going after Twitch streamers for promoting their game.
I haven't followed this super closely, but I think some Canadian news organizations must have gotten greedy and decided to play chicken and double dip on an already mutually beneficial relationship, not realizing the other party would just say "okay, you don't want to be on our site, fine."