This was not government standing up for anybody. This is a shakedown, pure and simple. If the government wanted to insure that Australians had a healthy indepe

This was not government standing up for anybody. This is a shakedown, pure and simple. If the government wanted to insure that Australians had a healthy independent news ecosystem, they would have legislated against filtering news for your bubble. They would have passed laws insuring balance and impartiality in the news itself. Update: There is nothing in legislation that says the money paid by these companies needs to be paid to journalists or to produce news. This money will go directly into executive bonuses and the news organizations will still go out of business.