the best way forward is to go back and ban news orgs from google, facebook, etc in countries where governments are captured by these media conglomerates. if the laws forbid this course of action then these companies should close down their local offices. google/fb can afford to make less money, and in this case they should.
no, the real issue here is that news sites had their business model broken for the past 20 years. they don’t know how to fix it. they are now click baiting machines. which is deepening their broken business models as trust in them is gone. this new scheme is them gasping for revenue.
They can’t have both: exposure AND content only available on their platform
if i post a link to a news site on this forum, should the forum pay the news site for the traffic the news site gets? of course not.
Why is the public interest best served by the government siding with google/facebook etc over the news orgs themselves?
google and fb should be banning their news sites in countries where governments are captured.
> Why is the public interest best served by the government siding with google/facebook etc over the news orgs themselves?
the governments would not be siding with google/facebook but with the public. there is no public interest best served by breaking the nature of linking on the internet.
My future perfect social media is persistent chat for friends and family. I just want to see babies, puppies, weddings, funerals, holidays, and all the other important life events of my nearest and dearest.
I don't think any of us use anything else at this point.
> the country, has largely worked, a government report said
nothing of value was lost
Worse for them it would harm republicans who rely on the radicalization engine and will respond to it in a hostile way. they are bluffing.
Then advertising on the internet took off in the 2000s, further depleting the pool of local advertising dollars available to many media organizations. Today most media organizations are a hollow shell of what they once were.
Without local news, democracy can't work, and it's sad that many places no longer have it. And quality reporting takes time and money, exactly what we don't have in today's internet. Sure, plenty of niches previously ignored are now well served, but there's a glaring gap in quality local news these days in most places.