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I am delighted at whatever law is driving that letter and want to lobby to introduce the same law here in NZ.
by lancewiggs 6y ago
I am delighted at whatever law is driving that letter and want to lobby to introduce the same law here in NZ.
- BLKNSLVR 6y agoBe careful what you wish for. This law is Australian government protectionism for the already-corrupt and thankfully dying status quo: the lumbering dinosaur that is News Corp. IMHO, what makes it obviously corrupt is that News Corp pays little to no tax and is owned offshore, and yet the Australian government protects it as if it's local (whilst at the same time cutting funding from the local news organisation the ABC). There's most definitely a void opening up for quality news and media, which is being filled by social media opinion pieces (which, to be fair, is no different from what I'm writing here) which are lacking in any of the quality, research or integrity that news reporting should have. Having said all that, history shows that what news reporting "should have" (quality, research, integrity, fact-checking etc.) has been bent in various directions since the very inception of news media. So what we're getting is just a changing of the guard as opposed to anything necessarily worse than before. However, this law the Australian government is attempting to push is a delaying tactic against the changing of the guard. It's protecting something that never really existed.
- tjpnz 6y agoGiven how easily NZ politicians have caved to US corporations in the past (Hobbit Law, S92A etc) I'm not holding my breath.