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by nitwit005 2256 days ago
What you're imagining is that if Google shuts down Google News in Australia, the government will threaten to shut down all their other unrelated business ventures, unless they put it back up?

The concept of forcing a foreign business to run a business it doesn't want to is a bit bizarre, and I doubt a court would support the concept, let alone the idea of holding the rest of the company hostage.