Tag: Google

Facebook is right to call the government’s bluff

As mentioned in previous analyses the way that the government has approached its battle with the digital giants has been flawed from the beginning. True its tough stand had made Google pay media companies well above what these companies would have been able to negotiate individually with Google, but...

Media code changes makes law ‘workable’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government will make a number of “technical” amendments to the media bargaining code to make it more “workable”, with the legislation set to sail through Parliament this...

Showdown looms for media bargaining code

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government is set to cave in to the demands of Google and Facebook, with preparations under way to water down its media bargaining code ahead of a...

Google’s code requests kept secret by government

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A crucial submission by Google to the media bargaining code inquiry is being kept secret by the government as it mulls potential amendments to the controversial scheme next week....

Senate committee gives bargaining code the green light

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A senate committee has given the green light to the big tech media bargaining code, but has paved the way for further government amendments to the controversial legislation next...

Google, Facebook actions a threat to democracy

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Microsoft has doubled down on its support for Australia’s media bargaining code, labelling Facebook and Google’s threats to withdraw services from the country as a “new vulnerability for the...

On platforms and services: The great unwinding

Posted on   |  by Paul Budde
The main demands made by the government stay in place, but some of the details will be changed. This allows the Government to claim victory, while the damage to...

It’s not about the news: It’s techno politics

Posted on   |  by James Riley
I am forced to live in two parallel worlds. One world is served by an expensive and unreliable NBN where on the weekend in Canberra the speed was 18Mbps...

Bing! Microsoft ‘fully supports’ Big Tech-media code

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Microsoft has thrown its full support behind the federal government’s media bargaining code, positioning its own search service as able to fill the void left by Google’s proposed withdrawal...