• MouldyCat@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    Yes well done, it’s the “if it pays for them” aspect that the news sites were unhappy about, and that the French government said Google should be doing. But Google doesn’t pay websites for summaries it publishes on its search results, and likewise they didn’t pay the news sites to summarise their articles. So for a while, Google News was unavailable in France.

    • schubidubiduba@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      Yes, good. If it does not pay the creators of the content it should be banned. Luckily the french are not as cowardly as others who just do whatever big tech companies want