"Meanwhile, very little of the traffic on Google or Facebook comes from news, and very little advertising appears next to news search results. Google didn't take their money, any more than Boeing took money from the ocean liners. The internet destroyed the model." https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1362198570523312130
"You don’t have to ask the hypothetical “what would happen if Google and Facebook had less market power- would they pay for links?” You can just look at, well, every other site on the internet."
"One of the favored tactics of Murdoch’s shills is to accuse everyone that says schemes like this are ridiculous of being in the pocket of tech companies... let me say clearly as a truly independent analyst I think this regulation is absolutely ridiculous" https://stratechery.com/2020/australias-news-media-bargaining-code-breaking-down-the-code-australias-fake-news/
Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code, Breaking Down the Code, Australia’s Fake News

Australia’s new media code forcing Google and Facebook to pay incumbent media companies is wrapped in dishonesty about the reality of the Internet.

https://stratechery.com/2020/australias-news-media-bargaining-code-breaking-down-the-code-australias-fake-news/
we've done this before. multiple times. https://twitter.com/modestproposal1/status/1088625274009325570
https://twitter.com/modestproposal1/status/1088626166301450240
https://twitter.com/modestproposal1/status/1089920157638627328
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