For more than a year now Australia’s major media outlets have been rumbling with the digital giants Google and Facebook over proposed legislation designed to make the search and social platforms pay for news content.on 1 per cent of Australian users - completely wiping their search results of any Australian news content.
In today’s episode of Please Explain Daily, media and telco writer Zoe Samios discusses how we got to this point, what could happen if Google stops showing Australian news results and whether Parliament is likely go through with a mandatory code.Becoming a subscriber also gets you exclusive behind-the-scenes content and invitations to special events. Click on the links to subscribe to
zoesam93 1)...It's not a 'strongly articulated view' it's a bias. 2) Priority should be legislation to protect Australian citizens privacy, not news media income 4) I don't agree with legislation that will put money in hands of some news media organisations and not others.