Facebook's week of dancing the hokey-cokey – it put the news tab in, it pulled the news tab out, it out the news tab in and it shook it all about – is over, and we're watching the dust settle.
What needs to happen before tech companies take the step of recognising the harm-mitigation intent of legislation, if they ever will? The only possibility that springs to mind is the appearance of competitors that profit off exploiting harmful mechanisms to a greater extent than they do — for example, Apple pushing for pro-privacy legislation that will harm their competitors far more than themselves. But in a world hyper-dominated by FAAMG this seems a long way off.
The Telegraph is paywalled, as is the Financial Times. The Guardian isn't. The Times is but you can get access (some access, all access?) via Apple's News+. There's Newsadoo and Inkl aggregators but I am not sure how much access to the source news that actually gives you. I use Google News and hate it when I click a link and find it is paywalled. That happens a lot. Which newspapers can afford to not have a paywall for the foreseeable future? I am guessing it is the tabloids. So if all the quality newspapers put up a paywall - what are people going to read? The Daily Mail??
What needs to happen before tech companies take the step of recognising the harm-mitigation intent of legislation, if they ever will? The only possibility that springs to mind is the appearance of competitors that profit off exploiting harmful mechanisms to a greater extent than they do — for example, Apple pushing for pro-privacy legislation that will harm their competitors far more than themselves. But in a world hyper-dominated by FAAMG this seems a long way off.
The Telegraph is paywalled, as is the Financial Times. The Guardian isn't. The Times is but you can get access (some access, all access?) via Apple's News+. There's Newsadoo and Inkl aggregators but I am not sure how much access to the source news that actually gives you. I use Google News and hate it when I click a link and find it is paywalled. That happens a lot. Which newspapers can afford to not have a paywall for the foreseeable future? I am guessing it is the tabloids. So if all the quality newspapers put up a paywall - what are people going to read? The Daily Mail??