Weird push-back articles on this:
Slate brings in the respected Michael Geist to explain how this situation is completely different from the same situation in Australia in 2021. Now Meta and Google are strapped for cash, laying off employees, hard times, AI, etc.
Except that that opinion is complete bullshit as even a cursory look would show. Meta has even more cash to throw at stock buyback games than last year. $28 billion in 2022, $40 billion in 2023. Google likewise.
I sure that a lot of good arguments can be made against this law, but Meta and Google now being poors who can’t afford it certainly isn’t one of them.
