[you_are_naive]

Why are people willing to give traditional news media propaganda unfair advantage compared to public to game the algorithm? (This is part of the new bill)

The entire thing will make Google a propaganda machine for news corp and other media giants as Google can neither rank them low nor remove them from search results and be forced to pay to sustain them.

Why are people willing to protect ad ridden news industry when they hate big tech adware so much? What's the difference? Shouldn't you be against both? Have you seen how bad trackers on news site are? I would rather use Google than generic news site full of trackers from everywhere.

Everyone wants to stick it to big tech but big media is suddenly good?

Every newscorp owned site is a cess pool of nazi defender and propaganda.

Any legislation which targets specific companies so blatantly isn't good. Anything which sets a precedent for paying for linking to someone isn't a good idea.

Come up with better anti trust laws instead of whatever this is and target every big tech company.

[zpeti]

Remember that people still read the mainstream media as legitimate news, and literally no media property has an incentive to cover this from Google or FB's perspective. In a way this is a massive oversight on Google and FB's part.

This is the same fight that Uber had to fight with taxi cartells. You need to fight, you need to fight hard, and most importantly you need the public on your side. I'm not sure if FB's move is the right one and will get public support, but at least it opens people's eyes to the consequences of this.

[elyobo]

I would expect that coverage from those not funded by advertising (the ABC) to be better.

[dbetteridge]

Unfortunately you would be wrong, because the ABC has decided it is better to suck up to the Liberal party for funding than to call them out on their bullshit.

[elyobo]

Poor choice of words. I would hope that it was better, but not reliably expect that it actually is in reality.

[dbetteridge]

I would hope so too :(

Frankly a bit fed up at news orgs in general (Not just in Australia)

If theres one thing the COVID situation has really brought out its just how much they like to use ridiculously false headlines and bury the ledge to draw outrage and clicks.

[sundvor]

They ought to declare conflict of interest, really.

I see no such declarations.

[schappim]

I was watching ABC News 24 today and the gave Facebook some jibes.

Fundamentally tech policy can be hard to convey in bite sized chunks.

[endgame]

You think anyone apart from Uncle Rupert had a say in this? In a first-world democracy, every citizen has the right to be ignored by his or her elected representatives.

[austhrow743]

Traditional news media, specifically news corp, is who gets them elected.