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This is blatant fear mongering. Furthermore, calling these directives 'link tax laws' is simply a cheap frame. You can link to articles freely. Including a snippet that has 'no independent economic significance' is allowed. Agreed, that is not very precise. But is that really such a big deal?

Sure, you might get sued. That's life. You have to trust the reasonableness of the courts. And don't worry, they won't go after you. The publishers will go after some big fish such as Telegram (which blatantly copies entire articles and strips it of everything but the article). Case law / Jurisprudence / Jurisprudentie / Fallrecht will develop around this issue and everyone will be happy.

And for some, just including a minimal snippet may not be an option. They'll have to pay. That's also life. Journalists and publishers need to eat too. Their work is too important to be allowed to wither.

Or people caring about software freedom. To this day you have to agree to a Privacy Policy to be able to use Intellij which is why I personally stick with Eclipse.

The commission’s planned revenue tax, which is expected to be proposed on March 21, would only represent a targeted, short-term solution.

It seems to be targeted at big tech giants specifically. Good luck splitting Alphabet, Facebook and Apple.

the impossibility of taxation under global free trade

They wish.

Sure, it's a large and complex language that takes time to master. But I'm interested to hear examples of what you call 'profusion of edge cases'.

The ratio between what a C++ compiler will accept and what it will produce sane code for is huge.

As is the case for any programming language.

C++, on the other hand, seems to have been designed by compiler writers for their own enjoyment and/or job security.

C++ is designed by its standards committee... If you know anything about the struggles compiler writers have had with implementing the standard, you'd know the standards committee definitely does not consist of compiler writers! It's really cheap to summarize their efforts as motivated by advancing their own job security if you ask me... I can recommend you to attend a meeting or to read some proceedings to convince yourself otherwise.