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Mike Masnick ✅

@atomicpoet @mike I don't think that's an accurate representation at all. The issue is if USERS are posting links to news, then making Meta pay for... sending those sites traffic. It's not "Meta publishing news." It's their users. But then the publishers trying to charge Meta a tax for it.

On top of that, those same publishers have social media teams trying to drive more people to send them traffic from social media... Their actions suggest they get value out of it today w/o payment.

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Chris Trottier

@mmasnick @mike The bill states that "a messaging service the primary purpose of which is to allow persons to communicate with each other privately" does not apply.

Nor should it apply -- for obvious reasons.

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@atomicpoet @mmasnick @mike

> The issue is if USERS are posting links to news, then making Meta pay for...

Just like journalists post on media sites and make the publishers pay for their content.

This analogy is of course imperfect, but useful, I believe. Meta has editorial control (they block and manage visibility of posts), and they make money on ads around the posts, after all.

Just like a media site which has editorial control over articles and makes money on ads published along them.

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