The answer was somewhere in between, because certainly there is a need to balance Google, Youtube, and Facebook Leviathans, with smaller media companies, and they should get a share when it is other corporate media using them as a source to increase traffic.
However, it is true, that some sort of linking and coming up in search results should not be considered under the law, when it benefits the news agencies, and their content is not being used by the corporation itself.

But what gets me, is Google’s and Facebook’s sudden concern for the open web, when we know that Google, Facebook and Youtube are ruthless censors of users when it comes to matters of simple opinion, such as: going against the LGBT, Co-vid, Democrat Agenda among other topics.

These users are not even asking for money! How come we don’t see their concern when it comes to respecting the plurality of opinion and the right to dissent in their users?

I really wish there was truly an Open Web!