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Google News To Shut Down In Spain On December 16th

Posted by timothy on from the boy-that-google's-a-bully dept.

An anonymous reader writes The news aggregation services offered by Google is set to be no longer available for Spain, starting December 16th, 2014. The decision of Google comes as response to new Spanish legislation that gives publishers the right to claim compensation for republishing any part of their content. This follows news of services of startup Uber being forbidden in countries like Spain as well as Germany and some city councils worldwide like Delhi, or other services like AirBnb being put under pressure to cope with local laws in other jurisdictions.

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  1. They will either change their mind by uberbrainchild8437 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    or go out of business as soon as they notice that more and more people are no longer finding their news site.

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    1. Re:They will either change their mind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      > the shutdown of Google News in Spain may be greater on smaller, less-well known news publishers than on name-brand news sites

      Which seems to be the goal of most new legislation: protect the big established players, kill the small upcoming competition.

  2. Re:Things happen outside US!!! by mcvos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not anti-American to recognize that countries that are not the US have laws that differ from American laws. The US has just as much history of legally protected rackets (software patents, spying on behalf of American corporations, banning Tesla from selling cars, telco monopolies, in fact, I think the US has a far worse record than Germany on this).

    So why is it to anti-American to expect companies to obey the laws of the country they operate in? Maybe because American companies are used to buying laws? Guess what: that's what just happened in Spain. That mess is as American as you can get.

    Yes, that Spanish law is stupid, but the summary is stupid for trying to connect it to Uber and Airbnb. Uber, by the way, are a bunch of thugs who even many Americans agree should go out of business as soon as possible.