This is absurd and ridiculous. It sets a dangerous precedent for the open web and sharing of ideas. The focus is on Google and Meta, but this ultimately affects the indie developers and news-focused sites and services. It’s a link tax. It’s a horrible plan that will 100% backfire on these publishers and adversely affect their reach.
Journalism and its publishers are not in a good place right now, but this is not the answer.
https://techpolicy.press/google-and-meta-owe-us-publishers-14-billion-a-year/
@jon There is no such thing as a "link tax". This is a term popularized by Google funded NGOs.
Publishers and creators need to get paid for content they create.
Instead now Google and Facebook are practicing industry scale content theft and getting all the money tax free funding the billionaires who own them private islands and mansions.
Why do you hate journalists like that? Do you own Google shares?
@onreact @jon Except they're not "stealing" content. They're distributing links that point back to the source where the journalists get paid through their choice of ad-supported business model.
If anything, Google should be charging them delivery fees for putting their headlines in front of millions of eyes.
@LouisIngenthron @jon Google is increasingly displaying third party content on their properties. Most searches are "no click" searches by now.
With AI search ("SGE") Google just uses copy and pasted or regurgitated third party content on their own sites and the chance of click through is minuscule.
Why should two gatekeepers get most of the advertising revenue on journalistic content globally? Can you please explain that?
@onreact @jon
>"Most searches are 'no click' searches by now."
[citation needed]
>"With AI search ("SGE") Google just uses copy and pasted or regurgitated third party content on their own sites and the chance of click through is minuscule."
That's not how LLMs work, and have they even released that yet, or are you freaking out about something they're still considering?
>"Why should two gatekeepers get most of the advertising revenue on journalistic content globally? Can you please explain that?"
Because they're the ones delivering that content to waiting customers. That's like asking "why should paperboys get a cut of the news?"
@onreact It's not my job to back up your wild claims. That you choose not to back your nonsense up with facts tells me you know damn well how full of shit you are.
Stop trying to troll people. This is Mastodon, not Twitter.
@LouisIngenthron @jon I'm not Wikipedia. Please look the "citation needed" parts up yourself. I thought you love Google.
SGE is the next phase of Google search they are preparing. Apparently like with the no click searches you have no idea about the current search landscape. Please do some research to understand.
You think the "paperboy" needs to get 90% of the newspaper revenue while controlling global distribution? What a misguided metaphor. You clearly don't know what you are talking about.