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Something I don't understand, is it only for Google and Facebook, or would it affect other search engines like Bing or DuckDuckGo?
by franciscop 6y ago
Something I don't understand, is it only for Google and Facebook, or would it affect other search engines like Bing or DuckDuckGo?
- shakna 6y agoThe legislation applies to a list of companies to be designated by the Minister. At this point in time, it appears that the Minister will only be designating Google and Facebook. (The Minister has spoken with Microsoft, and it appears that they were "happy" with the result, and there hasn't been a suggestion that they will be asked to comply.)
- franciscop 6y agoUnfortunately IMHO this is horrible. Having a white-list/black-list of companies like this seems to give despotic power to the Minister and prime-time for corruption. Even if it can be gamed/biased (by both sides), I'd strongly prefer a general "by-metrics" like "search engines made by corporations over X millions" and then let the courts decide on abuse.
- BLKNSLVR 6y agoWelcome to the current state of Australian politics
- SecurityLagoon 6y agoYup. Triggering this legislation on who the company is rather than what they are doing is ridiculous and loses any credibility it has.