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by wohlergehen 2998 days ago
Agreed. In the past, media companies that tried to enforce a "link tax" (IIRC in Spain and Germany) were just unlisted from the news feed---and lost a lot of traffic, rendering the whole endeavor moot.

I guess they think that if everyone has to enforce the tax, they are protected from the threat of being unlisted.