> bing probably has the money to reach a deal, smaller companies without monopolies is less likely, and that's the problem.
Reddit can charge smaller companies less money. So if there's a problem, again, the problem is 100% with Reddit.
Google is absolutely blameless here. You may not like Google, and you can certainly blame them for plenty of other things. But in this situation, literally all of the blame is with Reddit for deciding to remove their content from all search engines unless they pay. Reddit didn't have to do that. Google didn't make them do that.
i don't think google is blameless like you propose.