BobApril@lemmy.onetoWorld News@beehaw.org•Met says Just Stop Oil protests have cost it more than £4.5m in six weeks
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1 year agoThat’s still got to be orders of magnitude less than the externalized costs of the oil companies in the same time period - even just counting the costs to the UK gov’t and population.
Are they then going to force Google and Meta to continue to carry those links that they want the companies to pay for? It went badly for Spain, and then France had to rewrite their law - not sure how that finally wound up, but a lot of small media companies took the hit first. https://www.wired.com/story/french-regulator-says-google-must-pay-to-link-to-news-sites/