[liberationtech] Web Inventor Releases Ambitious Plan to Take Back Net

[aryt alasti]

>From this recent interview about "big tech and democracy":

But Google essentially reacted to [new copyright regulations] by deciding
that any German content producers and publishers who used that law would be
delisted by Google in the text, video, photo categories, with only the
headline remaining.

We decided to test it, and within only two weeks, our search traffic had
gone down by 85%. To state that in very clear terms: We stuck to the law
and the result was a decline in our traffic. This clearly highlights our
total dependence on Google, and Google's abuse of that. And what it also
clearly shows is that Google is effectively in a position to overrule the
rule of law, and with that the power of the market, in a country.

When France introduced the European copyright reform, Google did exactly
the same thing. The French publishers who made use of the law, were also
delisted. This, in turn, led to most of the French publishers giving in.
This is a symbolic showdown between the tech monopolists and the state
governed by rule of law.

https://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-professor-shoshana-zuboff-on-big-tech-and-democracy-2019-11


 Aryt
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