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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree they should. But I also agree they shouldn't be required to. And if they don't, that we should just live with it as the lesser of two evils.

[–] RyeBread@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I would argue regulation should come with (and typically be proportional to) scale. Google as an organization operates at an enormous scale. The scale of the amount links replaced with IA links will be large. The scale in amount in operational costs transferred to another organization is obviously worth it to Google. The sheer scale of everything and everyone involved should require Google to pay Internet Archive. In a decent world that is...

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't entirely disagree, but I think defining much of that in effective legal terms is going to be virtually impossible. And I'm super-wary of anything that says someone can't link to something.