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"In "Can't Get You Out of My Head," Curtis plays a long montage of talking heads on U.S. cable news repeating the phrase "the walls are closing in," during the final days of the Mu…

I was refering to Google's reliance on online advertising. The media unlike Google does have something to sell: journalism. The media relies in part on advertising, but not greater…

You say you disagree with the last paragrah but you did not offer any argument against any of the assertions in the last paragraph. The asserions were factual, having to do with th…

At this point, I would not even bother using Google to find news from Australia, whether Google pays or not. Just go to the Australian media websites. How hard is that. Middlemen: …

"I don't get why Google should pay news sites for promoting them and helping them make money." Because Google pays massive fees to be the "default search" on millions of computers.…

Oil companies pay a living wage. At least they used to, before "Big Tech". People used to care about environmmental degradation. It used to be a headline issue in the 1970s. It is …

For a lot of folks reading HN, who are trying to excise Google from their lives, if they were in Australia, this would be a dream come true. How do you make Google go away? Force t…

Looks like Google is going to pay France.

Doesn't Apple now own Beats.

How about caching proxy It has code that has been removed from Github

Would this help. http://mirror.github.taobao.org/cgit.cgi/

Is this a mirror/proxy of Github. IP address registered to company in Singapore. Domain registration has mainland China physical address: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25842…

Wonder if there are mirrors of Github based in China that do not receive these takedown requests https://github.com.cnpmjs.org/nyaadevs This mirror shows up in DDG search (which us…

The product, i.e., the Australian media, is already in the country. There is nothing to import. As for "legally operate in the country" that makes little sense either. If those com…

Australia is probably not a great example to use. The political landscape there is a problem in and of itself. Plus Murdoch, etc. They have their own problems to deal with. Google …

"The US government is concerned that an attempt, through legislation, to regulate the competitive positions of specific players in a fast-evolving digital market, to the clear detr…

Because I the user am running a forward proxy to encrypt all outgoing HTTP requests, I do not have to rely on "HTTPS-only" on the server side. I enforce "HTTP-everywhere" on the cl…

Analogies (such as leasing data center and commercial real estate) should probably account for the availability/lack of viable alternatives. For example, how much choice, what opti…

Are the terms of the NDA confidential. With respect to the fact of the existence of an agreement being confidential information, usually an NDA will only apply to information that …

Are the terms confidential. Can customers "compare notes" to see if they are getting less favourable terms than others.