> be "like if you had to pay to tell your friends about a new coffee shop"[1].
That is what the law does though. It only does it for google and facebook, and only for news, but it does exactly that.
Not only that, but in the coffee shop example you must give a recommendation. You can’t decline to do so even though the govt really will send you a bill.
You also have to give 14 day advance notice to coffee shops that you are going to change your recommendations. This also changes your recommendation cycle: if a coffeeshop starts serving bad coffee you have to wait 14 days to stop recommending them, and you’ll have to pay them every time you recommend them during that period.
The bill is exactly that dumb. It can be hard to explain something is dumb without sounding condescending. Google probably could have done a better job.
But....were you objecting to the coffee analogy because it’s wrong? It isn’t.
That is what the law does though. It only does it for google and facebook, and only for news, but it does exactly that.
Not only that, but in the coffee shop example you must give a recommendation. You can’t decline to do so even though the govt really will send you a bill.
You also have to give 14 day advance notice to coffee shops that you are going to change your recommendations. This also changes your recommendation cycle: if a coffeeshop starts serving bad coffee you have to wait 14 days to stop recommending them, and you’ll have to pay them every time you recommend them during that period.
The bill is exactly that dumb. It can be hard to explain something is dumb without sounding condescending. Google probably could have done a better job.
But....were you objecting to the coffee analogy because it’s wrong? It isn’t.