Google has threatened to block its search engine in Australia if the government proceeds with a new code forcing it and Facebook to pay news companies for the right to use their content
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Australia Hits Back At Google, Facebook: It's “Inevitable” You'll Soon Pay For Hosting Australian News FYlgtCFxRy#zerohedge
Google said it would block its search engine in Australia if the government proceeds with a new code, that would force it and Facebook to pay media companies for the right to use their content
Google has threatened to block its search engine in Australia if the government proceeds with a new code forcing it and Facebook to pay news companies for the right to use their content
Google has threatened to block its search engine in Australia if the government proceeds with a new code forcing it and Facebook to pay news companies for the right to use their content
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Australia to Google and Facebook: “break how the entire Internet works or get out!” Google and Facebook: well then we’d have to get out. Australia: “stop threatening us!”
Alphabet’s Google said it would block its search engine in Australia if the government proceeds with a new code that would force it and Facebook to pay media companies for the right to use their content
The Big Tech bubble continues to lose air. FANGMAN (Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Nvidia) has lost $1.4tn in mkt cap - equal to the GDP of Australia – since the beginning of September.
The threats Facebook and Google made to Australia after that country attempted to regulate them come up in the Cicilline Report on big tech. Apparently @davidcicilline is unhappy when big tech monopolies threaten sovereign nations.
ICYMI: Australia will become the first country to require Facebook and Google to pay for news content provided by its media companies under a royalty-style system that will become law this year $FB $GOOGL
Australia will become the first country in the world to force tech giants Google and Facebook to pay media companies for their news content. More on this story:
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Internet providers and tech giants like Facebook and Google will be required to remove violent content under a sweeping new law passed in Australia. If they don't, executives could face jail time.
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