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It's funny the way this is often framed outside of Australia as a government fighting back against monopolistic tech giants. This proposal is the result of lobb
by strangeattractr 6y ago
It's funny the way this is often framed outside of Australia as a government fighting back against monopolistic tech giants. This proposal is the result of lobbying by shrinking old media monopolies whose only option for increasing revenue is to take it from other sectors.
The most likely outcome is that Google will not withdraw from Australia but merely blacklist Australian media domains from search results. Google won't pull out of Australia because it earns substantial income (for an Australian business) and pays very little tax here.
- squiggleblaz 6y ago> The most likely outcome is that Google will not withdraw from Australia but merely blacklist Australian media domains from search results. That is not an option presently on the table. They can either withdraw Google Search from all news (hard, but maybe possible), or they can withdraw all of Google Search (easy), or they can participate (at the cost of their IP). Note that "all news" does not mean "a few large news companies operating in Australia" or even "every news company operating in Australia", it means "all news", including CCTV, DW, NYT etc.