was to collect data in case a code is implemented. “For us to be able to go into any sort of arbitration that would exist in our workable version of the code ... we needed that data and that insight to prepare,” she said.
Mr Frydenberg said regardless of the tech groups’ comments he was certain both platforms would pay for content. “My view is that it is inevitable that the digital giants will be paying for original content,” he said. “We are now in a position to implement a world leading code - one that is fair, taking into account mutual value exchange ... and we think it is a fair outcome.”
“I view the biggest risk as coming from the media payment negotiations which I view as effectively an Australian stealth tax on two major global internet companies,” Mr Rice said. “If the issue is funding Australian media, then the ACCC [Australian Competiton and Consumer Commission] or government should just say that rather than trying to disguise it in anti-competitive terms.
zoesam93 I prefer Google and Facebook to Murdoch and Nine.
zoesam93 We’re they scared !
zoesam93 They're businesses, when a government makes it too hard for them to do business in a country they leave, just like any other business would.
zoesam93 JoshFrydenberg AGAIN defending murdoch in this country who pays zero tax but attacks google who does - its not about media at all josh its your crooked donors across australia
zoesam93 Isn’t this as simple as paywalls? Media organisations post free content and paid content. They post click bait to move you to desired content. pleasereconsiderJOSH
zoesam93 Translation: Stop being smarter and more agile than us! We may represent the private sector and worship at the altar of capitalism, but that doesn’t mean we understand it or do it ourselves. How good’s being a party apparatchik?
zoesam93 Editors you appear to have removed the disclaimer that Fairfax, publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald is a direct beneficiary of the new laws.
zoesam93 You realise it’s completely pointless to report anything JoshFrydenberg says ?
zoesam93 Back in the Red Frydenberg Supports big business Rorting job keeper JoshFrydenberg has no credibility
zoesam93 Like Frydenberg and the LNP have never shifted the goalposts on anything. 🤣🤣😂🤦♀️
zoesam93 If Murdoch & Costello want their precious content to be protected from search engines then they can 1. insert 'no index' tags into their site or pages 2. use paywalls. The fact they don't means they WANT to be found. So they actually owe Google money for listing their content.
zoesam93 Can you dig into the actual meaning if google and facebook left australia? WIll they reroute .com.au to the US version? What happens to premium subscriptions? Youtube? Gmail etc What happens to the jobs here? Which teams disappear? Which stay?
zoesam93 You think people here are gonna be happy losing Google search and Facebook bc of declining shitty newspapers like the dailytelegraph and declining shitty ppl like Rupert Murdoch?
zoesam93 JoshFrydenberg admits to being outmanoeuvred by keener minds...
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