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@kkarhan@mstdn.social@ianbetteridge No, #LinkTax is inherently bad because it increases #centralization as it punishes #SmallMedia and #IndependentCreators harder than it could ever penalize #GAFAMs!
#The only thing that would work is if the #FTC & @EU_Commission would forcibly breakup all the #GAFAM|s with existing #AntiTrust legislation! https://writing.exchange/@ianbetteridge/110818742363170992
Writing ExchangeIan Betteridge (@ianbetteridge@writing.exchange)Disappointing to see people trot out Meta’s “antithetical to the open web” talking point re Canada’s so-called link tax. We do not have an open web. We have a web which is controlled by large monopolies. Canada’s law is a reaction to that.
Now is it the right approach? I don’t think it is. But the key question is how to break Meta and Google’s monopoly power, not pretending that reactions against monopoly power are breaking something which doesn’t exist.