https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/microsoft-backs-australian-law-forcing-google-to-pay-for-news-links/

Google has portrayed itself as a defender of the open Internet as it battles an Australian proposal to force Google and Facebook to pay Australian news organizations to link to their articles. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has argued that the ability to link to content without paying is "fundamental to how the Web operates."