France’s competition regulator fined Google 500 million euros ($592 million) on Tuesday for failing to negotiate in good faith with French publishers in a dispute over payments for their news.
The agency threatened fines of another 900,000 euros (around $1 million) per day if Google doesn’t come up with proposals within two months on how it will compensate publishers and news agencies for their content.
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BillGarber
If Google becomes an essential source of revenue for news sites, it will distort news coverage and thus the news sense as to what the truth about the culture actually is. Homogenization of the culture will seem inevitable. In France of all places. Hmmm.
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