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Google To Offer Micropayments To News Sites
CWmike writes "Google is promoting a payment system to the newspaper industry that would let Web surfers pay a small amount for individual news stories, an idea that could help publishers struggling with the impact of the Internet. The plans were revealed in a document Google submitted to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), which had solicited ideas for how to monetize content online, a task some publishers have had difficulty with. 'The idea is to allow viable payments of a penny to several dollars by aggregating purchases across merchants,' Google said in the document. Google said it had no specific products to announce yet."
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN1029818020090910
Wasn't that one of the talking points that was used to sell this robbery of the American people - that Congress would not allow fraud to happen? Well? What happened? Am I in the fucking Twilight Zone, here? And these are the people who want us to let them create another new massive entitlement program. Because even though the three massive entitlement programs that they already created (MedicAid, MediCare, and Social Security) are riddled with waste, fraud, and are insolvent, they can do better this time! Riiiight.. You've had enough chances. Keep your fucking paws off my money, you mongoloid mouth-breathers. Tell me how the hell it's possible for someone to win a seat in Congress when they don't know that X dollars minus Y dollars is less than zero is a bad thing? Fucking retards. Tar and feather the lot of them!