There seems to be a bit of a misunderstanding of this news story that seems to stem from not reading the post. Any connection to current events and big tech are

There seems to be a bit of a misunderstanding of this news story that seems to stem from not reading the post. Any connection to current events and big tech are coincidental only. This has been in discussion for years before today. There is a guardian article that explains the context to date reasonably well. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/09/australia-is-making-google-and-facebook-pay-for-news-what-difference-will-the-code-make https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/09/australia-is-m... As far as I understand it (you can read the explanatory memorandum for more plain-english explanations) https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r6652 https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislat... this merely sets up a process for Google (and other companies) to negotiate with media providers. Google (and Facebook) are obviously strongly opposed to this (and the potential for precedents to be set around the world). This story doesn't seem particularly bad for Google but they have definitely been fighting it out in the public sphere. https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-asia/australia/draft-news-media-bargaining-code-submissions https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-asia/australia/d... I also haven't seen any media organisations (that I've seen) crying foul over this - though obviously this would be reported on. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/google-admits-to-removing-local-news-content-in-experiment-20210113-p56tux.html https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/google-admits-to-rem... Anyway keen to hear other perspectives on this. I haven't looked into this in detail and have actively tried to ignore all the advertisements - but I am up and thought to try to explain this from my perspective.