Listen "Link Taxes Are (Still) Bad"
Episode Synopsis
Earlier this year, we had an episode looking at Canada's proposed social media link tax and the many ways it would be terrible. Since then, that link tax has become law (though not yet come into effect), and unsurprisingly proven that the dire predictions were correct. Also since then, the Cato Institute's Paul Matzko published an excellent paper on link taxes in general, and Paul joins us on this week's episode to discuss the many reasons that a link tax won't save the newspaper industry.
Read the paper: https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/link-tax-wont-save-newspaper-industry
Listen to our previous episode on Canada's link tax: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/04/techdirt-podcast-episode-349-link-taxes-are-bad-canada-edition/
Read the paper: https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/link-tax-wont-save-newspaper-industry
Listen to our previous episode on Canada's link tax: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/04/techdirt-podcast-episode-349-link-taxes-are-bad-canada-edition/
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