[LINK] Link Taxes Won’t Save Journalism

[Craig Sanders]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 02:50:16PM +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:
> https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/17/techdirt-podcast-episode-398-link-taxes-wont-save-journalism/
>
> Techdirt Podcast Episode 398: Link Taxes Won’t Save Journalism
>
> Interesting discussion about journalism.

It never was about "saving journalism".  It has always been about transferring
money from Google, Facebook, etc to Rupert Murdoch.

None of the smaller, independent newspapers got a cent from the Murdoch Tax,
only the Murdoch-owned press and, incidentally, a few other *large* newspaper
corporations[1].

And even if the smaller papers did get paid too, it still wouldn't "save
journalism".

The notion of having to pay to link to another site on the web - which was
designed around and for exactly that, that's what the "web" in the name is
referring to - is both absurd and obscene.



[1] BTW, note the distinction between "corporations" and "journalism" or
"journalists".  Corporations get the money. They're not required to spend it
on any of that expensive journalism nonsense.

craig