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[ NNSquad ] Spain's 'Google tax' could kill Facebook and Twitter


Spain's 'Google tax' could kill Facebook and Twitter

(Sharecast): http://www.sharecast.com/news/spain-s-google-tax-could-kill-facebook-and-twitter/21898804.html

   "Spanish Congress has passed a law, known as the "Google tax", that
    could result in the use of Facebook and Twitter being outlawed in the
    country.  Specifically, Madrid passed a reform to the Spanish
    Intellectual Property Law (LPI) that grants the Spanish News
    Publishers Association (AEDE) the "inalienable right" to charge a fee
    for anyone that adds their content.  Experts have begun to analyse the
    new regulation to see what effect it will have on social networks
    where users reproduce content with links to the original source."

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Spain certainly seems to be leading the way in the EU's thrust to try
wreck Internet free speech. It won't succeed, but there will be a lot
of damage along the way.

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren 
Founder:
 - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org 
 - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
I am a consultant to Google -- I speak only for myself, not for them.
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