The Swiss government requires Internet giants to pay "news citation fees" to the local media.

Thank you, CTOnews.com netizens. Hello, rabbit clue delivery! CTOnews.com, June 2 (Xinhua)-- the Swiss government has said that Internet giants, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, should pay for "made in Switzerland" news stories posted on their platforms, according to Swiss media SWI.

▲ Image Source Pexels according to the existing EU system, when news reports written and written by media journalists from EU member states appear on search engines, social media platforms and multimedia websites, the relevant website operators are required to pay fees to media journalists as compensation.

Google agreed last year to pay fees to more than 300 publishers in Germany, France and four other EU member states.

According to the Swiss government's plan, the content payment rule for Internet platforms should apply to all Internet companies with an average annual active users of more than 10% of the Swiss population. This means that search engines, social media platforms and multimedia sites with an average annual active users of more than 900000 have to pay Swiss media and publishers to capture content and include news.

The Swiss Federal Parliament will consult and consult on the bill before September 15 this year, followed by a vote.

The Swiss government will set up a new fee agency to negotiate and charge fees with relevant Internet companies on behalf of Swiss media groups and journalists.

The Swiss government said that since the final fee level depends on the outcome of negotiations between charging agencies and Internet companies, it is not yet possible to make a specific revenue estimate. But a survey conducted by Schweizer Medien, a Swiss German-speaking publishers association, earlier this year showed that Google should theoretically pay Swiss publishers at least 154m Swiss francs (CTOnews.com notes, currently about 1.2 billion yuan) a year.