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Alan Kohler: Google and Facebook are getting hemmed in – The New Daily
The government should use their sudden leverage to promote media diversity, not simply to entrench the duopoly of Nine and Murdoch, writes Alan Kohler.
Right now, it looks like Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and ACCC chairman Rod Sims might have Google and Facebook on the ropes.
This puts them on the verge of an historic moment that would remake both the internet and the media in Australia.
They could and should use this sudden, surprising leverage to promote media diversity, not simply to entrench the duopoly of Nine and Murdoch.
And I have just the idea for them to do it.
Search engines (whichever one it ends up being) and Facebook should be made…
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