In Media Bargaining Facebook and Google Aren’t Wrong but According to Them I’m Big News Anyway
Adam Parker
Posted on February 20, 2021
Now Facebook’s crossed the line. That kid called Zuckerberg who pissed off America’s rich by becoming an overnight billionaire with a product that does nothing—thereby fomenting their greed that became the Global Financial Crisis—has blocked my little website from posting to my Facebook Wall in Australia. Do we still call it a “wall”? As the story goes, Australia came up with an idea in the middle of a viral pandemic, to force Google and Facebook to pay for all news content sourced from Australian media businesses they host. To illustrate, say someone finds an article from Australia’s ABC News Online and posts a link to it on their Facebook Wall for their Friends to click, Facebook, the federal government says, should compensate the ABC. Likewise,…
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