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Actually the law seems to ban Google from “discriminating” based on this mandatory agreement entirely, including banning them from algorithimically burying their results.

Aka: show and pay News Corp or GTFO out of Australia. Sad.

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Honestly if Google and Facebook de-listed News Corp that'd probably hurt News Corp more than the tech giants. Their print publications are already circling the drain internationally. I think they should call their bluff.

Delisting News Corp would also have the benefit of raising the collective IQ

So this is just a very roundabout way of subsidizing Australian news media without having to call it that.

It’s likely an attempt by the libs to buy favour with the Murdoch press, who have traditionally had a lot of control over election outcomes.

has appeasement honestly ever worked?

What do you mean? News Corp definitely has a sizeable influence over elections, or at least they have had in the past. So it works in that sense.

yeah but that's not really how rupert murdoch media make their decisions, is it?

Well, Murdoch always support the liberals/conservatives but if he doesn’t get what he wants then he starts enthusiastically encouraging a good stabbing/knifing (rolling the prime mister).

That was more or less how New Labour got elected in the UK in the late 90s.

It’s not appeasement - the Liberal National Party and the Murdoch press have more of a ‘symbiotic relationship’.

Yes, you could consider it a tax (or rabbit) on large digital platforms to support commercial news corporations.

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