Microsoft is throwing its weight behind a European effort to force Big Tech companies to pay for the right to link to news articles. Google and Facebook have strongly opposed such proposals in both Europe and Australia, describing them as an attack on the open Web. Microsoft disagrees. Access to fresh, broad, and deep press coverage is critical to the success of our democracies, said Microsoft...
Microsoft throws Google under the bus in European news fight
Found 14 days ago at Arstechnica
