That certainly does sound like a problem for Facebook, and that’s why they told Canada to fuck off and stopped publishing Canadian news.
That doesn’t make it right, and it’s certainly pretty shitty on that part of Facebook, who could easily afford to pay for the content that they make so much money from.
If one company is able to profit from the content/product produced by another, the original company should be fairly compensated. That’s what the law was about, and Facebook decided they didn’t wanna play that game.
Who thought he would care?
That’s, like, his whole thing
That depends on how the tariff is written. It may work that way, or the tariffs may also apply to parts of Chinese origin.
I have. It wasn’t a very good margarita
That’s what we all thought five years ago…
What I can imagine is a fair and equitable ecology of media sharing. While some commercial producers - as well and indie ones - would offer their content for free linking (perhaps with a daily/weekly quota), others may work out mass licensing deals with the platform owner. , Even many more others may work out, individualized compensation agreements that fall somewhere in between.
So, FB would pay an annual licensing fee to all of the content producers whose content it profits from.
FB is already built on hundreds of more complex systems that the one required for tracking license payment obligations.