Google and newscorp have struck an agreement with the australian government. The news agency may not even get to see any of the money from this deal. This is a forced payment from one private company to another, which is problematic for all sorts of reasons. It's easy to skate over the fact that we do have a problem of who pays for news.
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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