On 2020/07/31 4:40 pm, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-07-31 at 15:50 +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141212/07360229413/surprise-spanish-newspapers-beg-government-eu-to-stop-google-news-shutting-down.shtml
>>
>
> Why does no-one in Spain or elsewhere see this as an absolutely god-
> given opportunity for a (probably Spanish-speaking) entity to set up a
> news search service for Spanish-language news?
>
> Or even just Euro-zone generally?
>
> Regards, K.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150725/14510131761/study-spains-google-tax-news-shows-how-much-damage-it-has-done.shtml
> When it came time for Spain to try to appease its misguided and angry
> publishers, the government sought to avoid the tactics that Google had done
> in the past and thus made it mandatory to pay, saying that sites themselves
> couldn't even opt-out of getting payments, even if they didn't want them. In
> response to this, Google broke out the somewhat surprising "nuclear option"
> and shut down Google News in Spain entirely. It seemed quite obvious that
> this move would create huge problems for media properties that wanted to be
> open and wanted people to link to them.
...
> However, the really telling part of the report is that this law that was
> passed in the name of helping news publications, ended up doing tremendous
> harm to many online publications -- especially smaller sites that frequently
> (and happily) relied on Google News and other aggregators for a significant
> amount of traffic. The report points out that it wasn't just Google News that
> shut down because of this law: a whole bunch of local Spanish aggregators
> shut down themselves, switched business models entirely, or similarly left
> the Spanish market entirely.
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