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An Australia with no Google and Facebook? The drastic threat explained – The New Daily
Google has threatened to pull its search engine from Australia if Canberra passes legislation forcing tech companies to pay for third party journalism. Here’s why…
In a major escalation, Google threatened Friday to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government approved legislation that would force tech companies to pay for journalism shared on their platforms.
Facebook, which appeared with Google at an Australian Senate hearing, reaffirmed a threat of its own, vowing to block users in Australia from posting or sharing links to news if the bill passed.
In both cases, the dire warnings which one senator called blackmail revealed the apparent…
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