Internet Freedom
4/13/2023
In Test, Google Removing California News Websites from Search as
Lawmakers Eye ‘Link Tax’
TIMES of SAN DIEGO
6/2/2023
Assembly Passes Bill to
Tax News Links on Facebook and Google
to Support Local Newspapers
“We support a thriving news media, but cannot support a link tax. Taxes on sending internet traffic from one site to another is not a sustainable business model for any party involved, and sets a dangerous precedent for governments and carriers to impose fees on users navigating the open internet.”
(emphasis added)
Matt Schruers, President
Computer & Communications Industry Association
TIMES of SAN DIEGO
Related:
Opinion: A Bill to Prop Up Legacy Media in California Is
Bad News for Journalism
Facebook to Remove News Content in California
if Lawmakers Require Paying Publishers
A California Bill Would
Break the Open Internet
& Harm Local News
“This would directly threaten
the free and open exchange of information online,
creating economic incentives
that would distort the market
and give more power to media gatekeepers.”
Florín Nájera-Uresti , Mike Rispoli
Free Press
7/8/2023
Free Press was a valiant warrior
fighting for net neutrality some years back.
When
AB-886
is considered
in the California Senate
in 2024,
Free Press may have an action page.
2/18/2021
The Bizarre Reaction To Facebook’s Decision To Get Out Of The News Business In Australia
“This fight was not ‘Facebook v. Australia.’ Or ‘Facebook v. journalism’ even though some ignorant or dishonest people are making it out to be the case. This was always ‘Rupert Murdoch v. the open web.’ We may not like Facebook in the role of the defender of the open web (and it’s far from the best representative for the open web). But Facebook saying that it won’t pay a link tax is a defense of the open web…”
(emphasis added)
Mike Masnick
tech
dirt
Related at
tech
dirt
6/11/2023
Would the normalization of link taxes ultimately chill free speech on the internet and in the civic town square of social media?
6/29/2023
And They Wonder Why…
…No One Trusts the Media Anymore
“Nowhere do you see thoughts along the lines of ‘maybe we shouldn’t have lied so much,’ or ‘I wonder if our thinking the public is a bunch of chimpchumps colors our coverage?’ or ‘hmm, maybe it was not such a good idea to become the unquestioning propaganda organ for the elites, the powerful, the connected, the government.’ ”
Thomas Buckley
former mayor of Lake Elsinore
“The Point” Substack
6/1/2023
Free Press Action Urges California Lawmakers to
Reject Journalism Bill That Won’t Save Local News
“The CJPA fails to properly address the causes of the state’s journalism crisis: namely, runaway media consolidation, mismanagement, changing consumer habits and a lack of market incentive to produce public-interest journalism…
Any legislation that primarily benefits TV conglomerates, hedge funds, out-of-state publications and clickbait profiteers will not fix the local-news crisis.”
Timothy Karr
Free Press
Related:
Free Press Action