Open letter to Australians

[Nom De Plume]

https://about.google/intl/ALL_au/google ... mealbar-p2

We need to let you know about new Government regulation that will hurt how Australians use Google Search and YouTube.

A proposed law, the News Media Bargaining Code, would force us to provide you with a dramatically worse Google Search and YouTube, could lead to your data being handed over to big news businesses, and would put the free services you use at risk in Australia.

The way Aussies search every day on Google is at risk from new regulation
You’ve always relied on Google Search and YouTube to show you what’s most relevant and helpful to you. We could no longer guarantee that under this law. The law would force us to give an unfair advantage to one group of businesses - news media businesses - over everyone else who has a website, YouTube channel or small business. News media businesses alone would be given information that would help them artificially inflate their ranking over everyone else, even when someone else provides a better result. We’ve always treated all website owners fairly when it comes to information we share about ranking. The proposed changes are not fair and they mean that Google Search results and YouTube will be worse for you.

[Redneck]

I think this is google whinging because they are going to have to pay up

Wasnt this the governments proposed bill to help the Australian news media which are going broke at a rapid rate. Particularly the smaller news papers are shutting down.

I havent read the bill so not sure of the details.

[Nom De Plume]

I think this is google whinging because they are going to have to pay up

Wasnt this the governments proposed bill to help the Australian news media which are going broke at a rapid rate. Particularly the smaller news papers are shutting down.

I havent read the bill so not sure of the details.

Me either. But this was the first thing to pop-up on my youtube search for the national convention... I'll check it out later... Just added it as it seemed newsworthy.