Australia is considering requiring Google and Facebook to pay for showing links to news articles.

To restrict linking in general would destroy the Web, but making big surveillance capitalism companies pay would do no harm. If it pushes one of those companies out of Australia, good for Australia!

However, the plan should not be discriminatory. It should apply to any large company which does a suitable sort of business, regardless of what country it comes from.

Please stop referring to works of journalism as "content", because that term disparages whatever works you apply it to. Their importance to society comes from not being a commodity.