facebook has pulled all newslengs from a whole bunch of, um, different pages. And it even looks to have effected a face book's own page in australia. Facebook is not going out in scraping the web and putting stuff on facebook. It's there because people put it there. Google did create the conditions such that the user would never even desire to go to your, yourelk, it was all in google.
Ben and James discuss Australia’s Media Bargaining Code and its fall-out.
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- Ben Thompson: Google Makes Deal With News Corp, Facebook Blocks News in Australia, Microsoft’s Shamelessness — Stratechery Daily Update
- James Allworth: Australia’s Proposed “Fox News Tax” — Medium
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