If the Australian government wants to try and force Google to make payments that exceed the revenue they get in Australia and is effectively preventing simply d

If the Australian government wants to try and force Google to make payments that exceed the revenue they get in Australia and is effectively preventing simply de-listing news sites (this is in the code). This seems like a reasonable approach to me. I don't agree generally with a lot of Googles business practices but I feel like this is just a desperate attempt to increase profits by the Murdoch media in Australia. As has been said elsewhere, if news sites don't want their content to be indexed/smart-carded by Google they can set that in their page headers and robots.txt The problem is they want to have their cake and eat it too, they want all the traffic passed through Google but they also want to effectively be paid for the users that never visit their site (Whether or not they ever would have). Disclaimer: Am Australian