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>requiring Google and Facebook to pay news sites for reposting their content is very different from "banning its citizens from discussing any news online".

Part of the law says that Facebook has to grant access to News Corp. so they (and they alone) can moderate any and all comments posted on Facebook about any of their articles.

So, actually, yes, it's exactly that.

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I believe this question has been addressed and clarified as limiting the moderation of content to the news organisations' own Facebook pages only, not a general ability to moderate discussion of their articles posted elsewhere by private citizens.

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(1) Subsection (2) applies if the registered news business corporation for the registered news business makes a request, in writing, to the responsible digital platform corporation for the digital platform service to do any of the following:

(a) ensure that the registered news business corporation is provided with flexible content moderation tools that allow the registered news business corporation to remove or filter comments on the registered news business’ covered news content that:

(i) are made using the digital platform service; and

(ii) are made on a part of the digital platform service that is set up and able to be edited by the registered news business;

(b) ensure that the registered news business corporation can disable the making of such comments;

(i) by particular persons; or

(ii) in particular circumstances.

(2) The responsible digital platform corporation for the digital platform service must comply with the request.

Exactly, “on a part of the digital platform service that is set up and able to be edited by the registered news business“, i.e. on the news site’s own personal page, which is already possible.

> limiting the moderation of content to the news organisations' own Facebook pages only

I have a Facebook page for my business, and I can already do that today.

Do you have a link to the text of the law? Curious to read what it requires and not the scaremongering of FB or Murdoch PR orgs.

https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/Exposure%20Draft%20Bill.... From a quick read, FB/Google are largely correct. There are lots of places where the draft is extremely vague (e.g. it doesn't really define what kinds of content sharing it covers), and Facebook is going by the broadest possible interpretation.

This may be what you are looking for:

https://www.australiancompetitionlaw.info/report/digital-med...

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