Have any countries got an in action "Link Tax" that Fb or google are adhering to?
Australia implemented one 2 years ago - the big players did deals with the big newspapers, the small newspapers suffered.
Now it is simply a payment from Google going mostly to the big telecom companies. Their lobbyists are the ones who wrote the original bill and this was always simply about getting more money for them.
The final agreement involves a simple lump sum, recurring payment from Google to (mostly) Rogers and Bell.
It's a more pure form of shake down, but it's less harmful to the web.