I think both sides are in the wrong here. One of them is Mark Zuckerberg and the other is the Morrison government, for a start. But not only because of that.

I think both sides are in the wrong here. One of them is Mark Zuckerberg and the other is the Morrison government, for a start. But not only because of that. The Murdoch family's claim ... I mean, Australia's ... is ridiculous. Facebook are totally within their rights to stop using Australian content and not pay for it. If the law is so sloppily worded that it arguably defines the Health Department website as news, well, it wasn't Facebook who drafted it. On the other hand, this does stuff around a lot of innocent bystanders, and Facebook could easily have given a month's notice that they were going to do it. Which is, ironically, one of the things that the law would require them to do. What ever else Facebook might have demonstrated by their irresponsible reaction, they have shown that this law isn't all wrong, rather some parts of it are urgently necessary.