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Good article.

There are plenty of reasons to tax and regulate Google and Facebook and disrupt their respective monopolies, but the proposed legislation would have far reaching consequences for the Internet and set a poor precedent.

What happens to the likes of DuckDuckGo and any future new entrants?

It also highlights the fact that we need a better model of paying for content. Advertising is just unbearable, maintaining several subscriptions is a pain. A Spotify model would work better for news sites.

The article is spot on for highlighting the transfer of revenue from Google/Facebook to News Corp without anyone else benefiting.