California's Journalism Preservation Act is their version of a link tax and Google isn't a fan

California is following in Australia and Canada's footsteps with the "California Journalism Preservation Act" that continues the dumb idea of forcing tech companies like Google and Facebook to pay for the privilege of linking to news content on the internet. Google has had enough of this bullshit, threatening in a blog post that "if passed, CJPA may result in significant changes to the services we can offer Californians and the traffic we can provide to California publishers". This link tax movement is such a sweet scam for the media companies. It's an issue where if normal people even notice it's happening, they hate both groups (media & big tech) anyways, so all media companies have to do is vaguely threaten the government to make this law and the government will give in as to not piss off those who can influence an election.