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by sullyj3 1956 days ago
I'm not advocating they stop showing the links. I'm advocating they show the links without the content excerpts - the use of which, to my understanding, is the justification for being asked to pay. Since the excerpts are the websites' intellectual property, whereas the links themselves are just links. Surely you couldn't have to pay to link to a website, that would be preposterous. Maybe I'm mistaken though.

They could even have a nice big passive aggressive message "Excerpt redacted due to the XYZ act of 2021. Click here to learn more about how Australian legislation is fucking stupid"
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nindalf 1956 days ago
You are mistaken.

From the code

> Why is this code necessary?

> The code seeks to address the fundamental bargaining power imbalance between Australian news media businesses and major digital platforms. This imbalance has resulted in news media businesses accepting less favourable terms for the inclusion of news on digital platform services than they would otherwise agree to.

"inclusion of news on digital platform services" - the mere inclusion, nothing about the presentation.

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georgebarnett 1956 days ago
Agree this is where the law is now.

It’s an interesting thought experiment to wonder if we would have got here if Google News wasn’t a giant pile of summaries.

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