Google Content Scraping Debate

so that google can make money on their content?

Google is not stealing traffic but it is stealing content by displaying it out of the original servers control. The real cost of a website is not hosting it but filling it with things people want to read. Content creators will want to get benefits such as ad revenue to compensate for their effort.

How does google profit from serving these pages opposed to original content creator?

google will get paid. you’ll be ripping off their publishers.

This is a tricky balance.No google are not profiting from borrowed content. You can always deindex yourself by robots.txt or otherwise.It's just google is providing a huge value to the market and content creators have gotten lazy and now waking up to that all other options of publishing are going away or are way more expensive.Google is in damage control mode. And will rather deindex all news sites, not pull search entirely.

why do people keep having their content for free for google to use? it doesn't make sense anymore. the google web social contract is broken, there is no tit for tat anymore. only paywall sites get it right now.

Would this make google's job on removing content aggregator slightly harder?

Google (in the context of search) produce no content of their own, are they ruining the internet?

Two words: Revenue optimizationEverything free on the web is optimized to maximize the delivery of advertisements and referrals at the expense of everything else. And Google no longer rewards credible sources vs ad-laden garbage.

Google isn't circumventing paywalls. Most paywalled sites whitelist search engines so that their content gets crawled and more people visit them.