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To remove some of the nonsense I've seen spread around. It's not blackmail, Google merely stated that if they are unable to make revenue above the cost of impl
by dbetteridge 6y ago
To remove some of the nonsense I've seen spread around.
It's not blackmail, Google merely stated that if they are unable to make revenue above the cost of implementing these new laws they will be forced to withdraw from Australia.
You cannot on the left hand say "You must do X (Paying news sites for linking to them)" but also in the right hand say "You cannot do Y (Removing news sites from linking)", that effectively makes this a tax that is passed directly to news company coffers.
They are also not willing to allow third parties to control the content and release timing of updates to their search algorithm, which seems reasonable.
- silexia 6y agoIn a free market, a company can choose to provide or not provide services based on whether they make money or not. If you require a search engine to pay for content it links to, it cannot make money. Google is correct in making the statement that it will need to exit Australia. You may not like Google, and I don't either do to it's abuse of small business on its Ads/ AdWords product, but I don't think any search engine could operate under these rules. Rupert Murdoch, and his extremely powerful company, have lobbied for special rules that harm democracy and free markets.