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Yes, Big Tech Should Pay More for News

The free market is not the only thing that matters. It's one thing for civilization to cast aside its typewriters and travel agents, and another to give up on journalism.

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Dan Perry
Sep 18, 2022
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Should Big Tech be made to pay for journalism? With the news industry growing more insolvent by the day, the debate takes on urgency. It features a laissez-faire argument proposing that punishing successful disruptors for media’s failures is unfair. But society would be well advised to look at the bigger picture.

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