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Not in defence of big tech but Australia is doing this whole news business laws wrong and for the wrong reasons. [0]

Only good is that this serves as a nice reminder that big tech & co. that they are not independent of government legislation.

[0] Read into Murdoch's deep hands in state affairs https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/19/kevin...

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I'm no fan of Facebook here as both them and Google have some questionable practices here. But I do find the law questionable. As I have seen it described it focuses solely on two tech companies without remediating the issues that allow anyone to operate in such a way. My understanding is that Murdoch essentially has monopoly control on the Australian media market and uses that to influence the political leanings of the country. The situation feels like that control is being exploited to protect his control and bottom line.

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