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If this happened in the US, then hacker news would suddenly be way more about personal blogs and product announcements and links to only primary sources than it currently is.

Depending on the wording of the law, links to relevant stories in the comments might be auto-killed by a filter.

I'd see a whole lot less news period.

Either the publishers would yield to indexing and aggregation, or the market would outright die.

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And to the larger point about there being too much "news content" much of which isn't news at all of course, I would much rather read one good article a week (or insert preferred time period here) than reading 10, but all of them being so light on content that there isn't a takeaway from them anyway.

HN would be better without the big media links. Mostly.

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