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Google is just a search engine. There are others. The papers buried their heads in the sand for 20 years. Their strategy is to pay politicians to save them? Fuck 'em. It's not the strongest that survive, it's the most able to adapt and the papers have not proven themselves to be adaptable.
Aroogah-
"just a search engine" hmmmm I have to disagree there. Android phones, Youtube, Ad Space, looking to offer a new "approved" search Engine for China with built-in censorship, they have their fingers in a lot of pies and laws.
That doesn't excuse the papers looking the other way or the EU making bad law of course. But if one newspaper or TV channel cannot completely destroy another one by withholding services.
We have to see how this new law pans out, I don't quite believe the "break the internet" hype but it may accidentally screw things up rather than make them better.
JWestland
It is almost as if Google has too much power... ;)
But classic case of unintended consequences going on in Spain then.