YouTube / FB / Google - at risk in Australia?

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@Gregr

Is Choice Community at risk? There are many posts by members on this site that link to news stories, and the site provides a search function on posted content.

@person

I don’t know whether anyone has described it as a “Link Tax” but you could also describe it so.

I have posted about this in the other topic Do we Need to Regulate Google and Facebook

Do we Need to Regulate Google and Facebook

Link tax has been debated in the EU for several years. The articles at the base of this have been rejected and are still in a process of being written. Luckily for the EU they have some protection of private rights which meant the articles were sent back rejected because of those rights. We don’t have similar protections here sadly. This doesn’t mean that the EU won’t get a link tax but it would need to be in a space that protects the private user there, flow on effects could however impact us…

Much of the same ground is being mulled over in both topics, this one here and the one on regulating Google and Facebook.