Fuck monopolies, but the entire premise of a link tax completely breaks the internet.
It should never be illegal to link to a thing. To host illegal content, sure, that should be illegal. But making it illegal to say where some thing, legal or not, is located is asking for all kinds of trouble.
Exactly. Knowing where to buy drugs should never be illegal, nor should telling others about it. The illegal action is buying, selling, or posessing a controlled substance.
Now, knowing where to find something illegal could indicate that you have done or plan to do something illegal, but it is not proof of guilt in itself.
Linking to any form of content should be protected speech. Full stop.
Yeah, good luck with that. In Australia they stopped paying and now the media organisations that relied on this income are pretty much stuffed.
Since Google is making money of everyone how about they partake in funding everyone via a universal basic income. Just a thought.
