This ???. Also, the poverty of ambition in some parts of the media is really grim - managed declinism. https://t.co/30xG97gOvi

— Mark Wallace (@wallaceme) July 13, 2021

The real change is not that Google and Facebook have market power - it’s that newspapers don’t have market power and wish they did, so that they could make all of us pay to link to them

— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) July 13, 2021

The shakedown continues. It’s hard to see how making tech companies pretend to ‘buy’ something that has little to no economic value to them is a path to a sustainable model for newspapers. If you want a tax and a subsidy, be honest and call it that. https://t.co/pkuQA5X52P

— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) July 13, 2021

3. It's the third time an authority/court sides with press publishers against Google. Whether we like it or not, the neighboring rights are definitly a thing. https://t.co/hMEJ3QrC25

— Laura Kayali (@LauKaya) July 13, 2021

“Google has been hit with a €500m fine by France's competition authority for failing to negotiate "in good faith" with news organisations over the use of their content” https://t.co/J4LTSLB9i0

— Fabio Chiusi (@fabiochiusi) July 13, 2021

The bad faith here is from news organizations and government. Blackmail defines bad faith negotiation. https://t.co/tqDS8Dm5tq

— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) July 13, 2021

The real change is not (primarily) that Google and Facebook have market power — it’s that newspapers don’t have market power and wish they did, so that they could make all of us pay to link to them. https://t.co/KKptHXXMuZ

— Art Jonak (@ArtJonak) July 13, 2021

News organizations are increasingly getting a help from governments for more compensation from internet platforms. Today, Google was fined nearly $600 million in France for failing to negotiate "in good faith" with publishers.
https://t.co/sYmIi0gz19

— Adam Satariano (@satariano) July 13, 2021

Google said it was “very disappointed”, insisted it had "acted in good faith throughout the entire process" and said the fine ignores "the reality of how news works on our platforms" https://t.co/yXPtHdOZiu

— Press Gazette (@pressgazette) July 13, 2021

To sum up: French publishers want Google to be the new provider of subsidies for their ailing business. This whole neighboring right thing is an intellectual contraption aimed at distributing monies.
https://t.co/hOimjW7j1Q

— Frederic Filloux (@filloux) July 13, 2021

The intellectual contortions behind this are fascinating. ‘If G & FB didn’t have market power, newspapers could get them to pay to link”. OK: so why wouldn’t they pay everything else they link to? ?Why don’t sites that don’t have market power pay to link? ???

— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) July 13, 2021

The latest $600M fine by the French against Google reminded me of the Australian fiasco. https://t.co/WevR0stns1
How is Google at fault for the lack of innovation with Publishers business model? Extracting rent via regulators is not exactly innovation...https://t.co/BUUQt9UcGz

— Noam Bardin (@noam) July 13, 2021

メモ：France fines Google $593M for skipping talks on news publisher compensation https://t.co/tVSvcIZABT フランスがGoogleに5億ユーロの補償金をメディア企業に払うよう命じる。意外だが“shakedowns（揺さぶり）”とか“protection rackets（みかじめ料）”とかメディア企業側が批判されている

— dɾ̣xq (@blogdexjp) July 13, 2021

France‘s competition watchdog has fined #Google $593 million (€500 million) for failing to negotiate with media companies over the use of their content.https://t.co/oBadKkef2J

— DeadShpere (@iamTdivyesh) July 13, 2021

France fines Google $593M for skipping talks on news publisher compensation (story by @thomas_macaulay) https://t.co/OoI8zW3Tdj

— TNW (@thenextweb) July 13, 2021

구글, 프랑스에서 2020년 반독점 재판 판결을 이행하지 않았다고 하여 5억 9천만 달러 벌금. https://t.co/K6Nhs4uXAO

— 푸른곰 (@purengom) July 13, 2021

France fines Google $593M for skipping talks on news publisher compensation (story by @thomas_macaulay) https://t.co/Obx8cSqk8i

— TNW (@thenextweb) July 13, 2021