{"id":3639,"date":"2023-05-19T02:27:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T02:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-how-to-save-the-news-from-big-tech-18-may-2023"},"modified":"2023-05-19T02:27:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T02:27:44","slug":"pluralistic-how-to-save-the-news-from-big-tech-18-may-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-how-to-save-the-news-from-big-tech-18-may-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluralistic: How to save the news from Big Tech (18 May 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s links How to save the news from Big Tech: Four prescriptions from EFF. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming\/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading How to save the news from Big Tech (permalink) It’s no longer controversial to claim that Big Tech is a parasite on the news business. But there’s still a raging controversy over the nature of the parasitism, and, much more importantly, what to do about it. https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2023\/05\/18\/stealing-money-not-content\/#beyond-link-taxes This week on EFF’s Deeplinks blog, I kick off a new series on the abusive relationship between Big Tech and the news, analyzing four different dirty practices and proposing policy answers to all four: https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2023\/04\/saving-news-big-tech The context here is that various governments around the world have taken notice of the tech\/news problem, and are chasing a counterproductive “solution” – the “link tax,” where tech firms are required to pay for the links and short snippets their users or news search-tools make to news-stories. In some cases, the “tax” is indirect: tech is required to negotiate a payment to make up for other misdeeds (like ripping publishers off with ad fraud). You can argue that this isn’t a link tax, it’s just pressure to bargain, but because these rules typically ban platforms from simply blocking publishers’ content if they can’t reach an agreement, they become link taxes: “You must carry links, and you must pay the sites you link to” isn’t meaningfully different from “You must…Pluralistic: How to save the news from Big Tech (18 May 2023)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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