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The way the bill is written is disappointing because it conflates two different things together:

For the purposes of this Part, a service makes content available if: (a)the content is reproduced on the service, or is otherwise placed on the service; or (b)a link to the content is provided on the service; or (c)an extract of the content is provided on the service.

I think most of us would agree that a search engine being charged for providing links (b) is pretty dumb.

But with the rise of content embeds and republishing (a/c), it's a completely different scenario when Facebook is sucking up your content for the benefit of their users.

So while I feel this is a raw deal for search engines, it is about time that social media platforms paid their dues.