Communications Minister touts the opportunities of a Google-less Australia
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Re: Communications Minister touts the opportunities of a Google-less Australia
#2If we ever needed any proof that Australia's Liberal (conservative) party was a puppet for News Corp, its this law.
Re: Communications Minister touts the opportunities of a Google-less Australia
#3If we ever needed any proof that Australia's Liberal (conservative) party was a puppet for News Corp, its this law.
Can you explain?
Re: Communications Minister touts the opportunities of a Google-less Australia
#4If we ever needed any proof that Australia's Liberal (conservative) party was a puppet for News Corp, its this law.
Pretty much this. Although Rupert Murdoch is a worldwide media mafioso, his home territory is Australia and he owns the vast majority of print media here - this proposed action is in his favour and his only. It even by design excludes public broadcasters like ABC and SBS.
Re: Communications Minister touts the opportunities of a Google-less Australia
#5If we ever needed any proof that Australia's Liberal (conservative) party was a puppet for News Corp, its this law.
As somebody who dislikes both the established old media firms of Murdoch & Co, but despises the parasitic Tech surveillance capitalism even more, I welcome this (regressive) attitude. Europeans are fighting for similar reasons which is loss of control of their own media and a takeover by US propaganda and norms by companies who have failed to pay their taxes again and again.
imo it doesn't matter that many of these local outlets are backward, racist and populist rags (never criticizing the Australian concentration camps, or failure of capturing the idiocy of the AAbill, or whatever justifies being outraged about etc), the big guys (FB/Google) are expert in doing the same thing but at scale and with better PR (+ they can do so without paying their taxes).
As long as it hurts BigTech it's the right move no matter what "appears" right or wrong. These firms and their management are parasites and they need to be treated as such until they a) pay their taxes and b) respect local laws.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_immigration_detenti...
Re: Communications Minister touts the opportunities of a Google-less Australia
#6If we ever needed any proof that Australia's Liberal (conservative) party was a puppet for News Corp, its this law.
As somebody who dislikes both the established old media firms of Murdoch & Co, but despises the parasitic Tech surveillance capitalism even more, I welcome this (regressive) attitude. Europeans are fighting for similar reasons which is loss of control of their own media and a takeover by US propaganda and norms by companies who have failed to pay their taxes again and again. imo it doesn't matter that many of these l…
Re: takeover by US firms, note that while Murdoch was born Australian he gave up Australian in favor of US citizenship... precisely because it would have been illegal to own such a stake in US media firms as a non- or dual-citizen.
We would also like the Murdoch media and/or tech giants to pay tax in Australia, yes, but neither do at the moment.
Re: Communications Minister touts the opportunities of a Google-less Australia
#7Australia could build its own Baidu, or Naver. I agree it's an exciting opportunity.
Re: Communications Minister touts the opportunities of a Google-less Australia
#8Australia could build its own Baidu, or Naver. I agree it's an exciting opportunity.
Good luck with that. What you will wind up with is Rupertoogle.
Re: Communications Minister touts the opportunities of a Google-less Australia
#9Am I the only one who finds it hypocritical that the Liberal government is ok with Murdoch owning pretty much the entire Australian free press; yet they are against monopolisation of search and basic http-based news distribution (ie simple web scraping). The reason people read news online is because Aussie news papers are generally such racist garbage and their web sites are either paywalled or stuffed with ads.
Sorry I don’t meant to come across as contrarian, but as a European and now Aussie citizen, the quality of reporting is really horrendous. This type of law doesn’t seem like anything designed to save the future of free, independent journalism, but simply the old boys club of the liberal party handing out free money to their mates in Newscorp.
Not that the alternative (surveillance capitalism is much better though, but at least it doesn’t impose contradictory logic onto the basic infrastructure of the Internet (text and http).
Re: Communications Minister touts the opportunities of a Google-less Australia
#10Australia could build its own Baidu, or Naver. I agree it's an exciting opportunity.
Why build? There's a number of other search engines available - Google is not the only choice. As a national project, that would be a waste of money.