Astonishing that a mere corporation thinks they have the right to negotiate with a nation-state and "come to an agreement."
Would that I could negotiate having to comply with laws that affect me.
Would that I could negotiate having to comply with laws that affect me.
I hope they don’t cave disgracefully like in Australia and just shut down Google News and remove news sites from the search index in France as they did in Belgium a few years back IIRC. I am a Frenchman and very skeptical of Google, for the record, but rent-seeking by failed businesses should not be condoned, like the copyright levy charged on data storage devices here.
AFAIU the French regulators decreed that Google can't not link, either [0]. It's quite a paradox: Google needs to pay to show snippets or even just linking to French (EU) news sites, but can't not show snippets/link either.
[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/french-regulator...