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Google’s threat to block Australia over content fees sparks anger – Al Jazeera English
Proposed law will force Google, Facebook to pay local media for their news content or face millions of dollars in fines.
Google has threatened to block Australian users from accessing its search service, unless the government changes proposed legislation to make the internet giant pay news outlets for their content.
Google Australia Managing Director Mel Silva told a senate committee in Canberra on Friday that if the current draft media laws went ahead unchanged it would be the worst-case scenario and force the firm to block Australians.
If this version of the code were to become law, it would give us no real choice…
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