[renaicirc]

If they believe that Google should compensate them then they can already demand that Google stop linking their pages, and then bargain with Google the ordinary way. Why is it fair or necessary to add extra laws here?

[rossjudson]

There's no "demand" necessary. Just configuration.

Lots of interesting things on Robots meta tag:

https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_t...

[clouddrover]

It's not "belief", it's financial reality.