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Vital Signs. Google shouldn’t subsidise journalism, but the government could – The Conversation AU

Making Google and Facebook pay Australian news publishers might be good politics, but it is odd economics.

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You might have missed it what with the biggest recession since the 1930s and a pandemic going on but there may be big, and bad, changes happening to a media landscape near you.
Right now the Australian government is considering amending the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 to force Google and Facebook to pay local commercial media organisations for the sharing of their content on the digital platforms.
The News Media and Digital Platforms Bargaining Code proposed by the Australian Competition…

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