What if Google cut off access to its search engine in Australia?
This is the thinly veiled threat formulated Friday during a hearing in the Senate by Mel Silva, director of Google on the island-continent.
Simon Milton, Facebook vice president in charge of public affairs in the Asia-Pacific region, meanwhile explained that the social network could be required to block the sharing of press articles.
These shocking statements provoked the wrath of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison:
“Australia makes the rules as to what can be done in Australia.
It is our Parliament that decides.
We do not bow to threats. ”
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The object of this weapon pass is a project of the Australian government to force Facebook and Google to pay the media for their content.
In this country, the two American giants suck 80% of online advertising revenue.
Opposite, the media find themselves in a complicated economic situation as the Covid-19 pandemic
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