• ijeff
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    1511 months ago

    There’s no tax requirement. They’re required to come to an agreement with the news outlets to compensate them.

    • @fubo@lemmy.world
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      1811 months ago

      Sure, and they chose the option of not imposing any costs on those news sites by linking to them; thus making sure that there’s nothing to compensate them for.

      • ijeff
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        711 months ago

        It’s more the idea of FB not generating ad revenue of their news content and thus not having to compensate them (rather than about adding cost burdens to the outlets). No specific taxes involved though. It’s similar to the Australian model.

        • @fubo@lemmy.world
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          011 months ago

          Okay. So they chose not to make any ad revenue by allowing users to write links to news sites and then running ads next to those links. Thus, they don’t owe any such legislatively-imposed charges.

    • @x4740N@lemmy.world
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      311 months ago

      So the same bullshit law as Australia, I dont know of of the Australian one has been repealed yet