> How about we simply ban Google and Facebook from reproducing news on their own site?
You can. Just add the robots.txt to the website.
But the news sites need Facebook/Google more than the other way around.
You can. Just add the robots.txt to the website.
But the news sites need Facebook/Google more than the other way around.
This is oft-quoted, but the media organisations seemed to be doing better before Google/Facebook became the middle-man siphoning off advertising revenue.