On Friday, Google responded to a pending invoice within the California state legislature, the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), that might require Google to pay a hyperlink tax to publishers by testing eradicating hyperlinks to California primarily based publishers and pausing investments in information publishers inside the state.
Google wrote, “To organize for potential CJPA implications, we’re starting a short-term check for a small proportion of California customers.”
Google stated they’re “testing course of includes eradicating hyperlinks to California information web sites, probably coated by CJPA, to measure the influence of the laws on our product expertise.”
Then Google additionally stated, “Till there’s readability on California’s regulatory atmosphere, we’re additionally pausing additional investments within the California information ecosystem, together with new partnerships by means of Google Information Showcase, our product and licensing program for information organizations, and deliberate expansions of the Google Information Initiative.”
This isn’t the primary time Google made this transfer, a decade in the past, an identical factor in Spain occurred, solely to return in 2022. Identical in different nations like Canada and others.
Google is actually threatening states and nations. As Greg Sterling wrote on X, “It’s completely high quality for Google to talk out on coverage points it disagrees with. It’s additionally high quality for Google to not carry any information. It’s not high quality for the corporate to try to intimidate lawmakers and publishers.”
There are loads of good write ups and commentary on this matter that Techmeme introduced all collectively.
Are you primarily based in California? Are you on this check the place you do not see snippets from California primarily based publishers?
I checked and nonetheless seeing California information sources right here (not less than @latimes particularly).
— Jennifer Slegg (@jenstar) April 14, 2024
Discussion board dialogue at X.
