Waiting for half of Lemmy to blame me, a Harris voter (unfortunately), who lives in a red state, for not telling enough people that “her genocide will be better”. The democratic party has swung and missed for their voting base for at least the last 4 election cycles, maybe they start blaming themselves for a change.

I would argue regulation should come with (and typically be proportional to) scale. Google as an organization operates at an enormous scale. The scale of the amount links replaced with IA links will be large. The scale in amount in operational costs transferred to another organization is obviously worth it to Google. The sheer scale of everything and everyone involved should require Google to pay Internet Archive. In a decent world that is…