On: Newspapers don’t need a special law to help compete with Google and Facebook

[Kalium]

> Say they get their cartel, and negotiate a link tax of a penny per link or whatever. How does that play out?

We don't have to speculate! It happened in Spain.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/9f7fmj/this_is_how_...

Google shut down their news product in Spain. Full stop.

[_rpd → Kalium]

Did Facebook do the same? Did they have to actively prohibit users posting links? It seems odious.