Are Links Compensatory?

Rodrigue defends the notion that why should they have to pay? Because links have value. The government takes no position and the legislation takes no position on paying for links, or that google and facebook need to pay this amount of money for links. In fact, whatever it is that gogel and facebook are going to be paying the news organizations for already has been privately determined, and it's a secret. We don't know if they're paying for the amount of news or the amount of traffic the news generates. But there's no way it's based on links, because facebook and google can't control the number of links that people post on facebook and google. So the minis does not