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In-reply-to » Australia Says Law Making Facebook and Google Pay For News Has Worked An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: An Australian law giving the government power to make internet giants Facebook owner Meta and Alphabet's Google negotiate content supply deals with media outlets has largely worked, a government report said. But the law, which took effect in March 2021 after talks with the big tech firms ... ⌘ Read more

@portlandbeer@neotxt.dk Not really… Where are you from btw? This particular law that was passed was one of the most recent and quite up there on the “stupid list”. It serves/served only one purpose, to prop Rupert Murdoch up. It had/has nothing to do with anything about media and news and fairness or any of the crap.

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