Publishers, lobbying for laws around the world that will help them extract payments from platforms like Google for linking to news, are ruining the internet (Jeff Jarvis/Whither news?)

Jeff Jarvis / Whither news?:
Publishers, lobbying for laws around the world that will help them extract payments from platforms like Google for linking to news, are ruining the internet  —  Around the world, news industry trade associations are corruptly cashing in their political capital —&#8202 …

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