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by this_user 33 days ago
You are not protecting "normal people". These types of laws are nothing but attempts at rent seeking by dying legacy media companies that were too incompetent to figure out working digital strategies on their own. And they would already be dead without the traffic that big platforms like Meta and Google are sending their way.

If you send traffic to some e-commerce platform through an affiliate link, you are the one who gets paid. These companies are instead trying to rig the system in such a way that the affiliate would be forced to pay them. It's an absurd and desperate proposal that deserves to be rejected.
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bilekas 33 days ago
While you might not like the legacy media, the fact is they're still doing some work. That work needs to be reimbursed?

If Meta and co create their own content, they're free to do with it what the like. I need to pay google maps for a certain amount of useage etc. Why should Meta and co get an exception on content ?

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veeti 33 days ago
Why don't you just subscribe to these newspapers and give them a read instead of demanding other tax payers subsidize their business?
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tardedmeme 33 days ago
Who said anything about tax payers until you said it just now?
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anigbrowl 33 days ago
Oh enough already. 99% of 'new media' is complete ass - clickbait, sensationalist drivel, opinion masquerading as fact, or all 3. Blogging and the rise of 'citizen journalists' has led to very little journalism but vast amounts of information pollution.
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buellerbueller 33 days ago
>If you send traffic to some e-commerce platform through an affiliate link, you are the one who gets paid. These companies are instead trying to rig the system in such a way that the affiliate would be forced to pay them. It's an absurd and desperate proposal that deserves to be rejected.

This isn't what is happening. People read the summarized headline/article on meta's turf and then don't go to the source article. If meta were just posting the link, it would be fine, but that isn't what is happening here.

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abigail95 33 days ago
Should HN links be compensated on a percentage of non-click-throughs? There are people who just come for the comments. Would you support this law being universal and not only applied to Meta/news?
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buellerbueller 33 days ago
HN links are not article summaries, so your question is not apt.
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