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No. Forced arbitration is still a feature of the code.
I’m not sure how that’s relevant?
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/government-agrees-to...
Facebook gained one month's notice when a platform is designated under the code and two months more negotiation time when making a deal. That's all.
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> so it looks like Facebook won in the game of chicken between them and the Australian government From my understanding of the situation, there was no game. FB didn't give a shit about pulling news from Australia because it was a tiny proportion of their content. The government/politicians were trying to strong arm FB into coughing up with zero leverage. It was insanely stupid. Here's FB's post for context: https://a…
Why did Google blink when FB didn't then?
Since Google stated it was prepared to share revenue from news.google back in June and now that is all that is happening, I'd say someone else blinked.
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