the current way news aggregators pull content is
completely broken for actual journalists. they just strip the text and leave nothing behind for the original creators to sustain their operations.
>it is not curation, it is theft.we need a mandatory
paywall-bypass tax on any platform that uses automated scrapers w/o a direct revenue share agreement. if we dont fix this, the only thing left will be
unreliable bot-generated sludge instead of real reporting. we should implement a standard protocol like
fetch_attribution(source_url, license_type)
to ensure credit is always tracked. it is
impossible far too easy to ignore the impact this has on local communities.