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In truth, Big Tech is stealing news publishers' money (Photo: Matthew Tempest)

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Saving the news from Big Tech

As Big Tech arose, the news declined. It's not controversial to assume that these two facts are related, but there is no consensus on how the decline of the news industry is related to concentration in the tech sector, let alone how policymakers intervene in the relationship between news and tech.

Broadly, critics of tech's relationship to news fall into two camps. First, there are those who argue that tech is misappropriating the news, say, by indexing news stories inside of search eng...

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Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organisation.

In truth, Big Tech is stealing news publishers' money (Photo: Matthew Tempest)

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Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organisation.

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