Chilling Aussie “Mandatory news media bargaining code”: Allowing Establishment Media to Dictate Terms to “Digital Media”

It’s a Brave New World on Animal Farm.

Eric, at the end of the day, ALL the major presentation platforms of digital content want to somehow control or at least influence what we can access.

In Canada, the government was recently so audacious about controlling content that it proposed regulating news media organizations by way of government approved licensing.

Of course, this proposition had the support of those media groups who saw this as a way to suppress competition.

In Australia, I bet the ABC would love to see rules introduced that ‘canceled’ any content that was not ‘woke’ on all digital platforms, no matter who operated them

Wonder how the Starlink (SpaceX) and Project Kuiper (Amazon) satellite systems will figure into all this. If you have a dish at your house and are not connected to anything local its going to be harder for the governments to control what you are doing. They can try but hacks are a part of Internet life. If you are transmitting/receiving to something flying overhead, the signal is pretty much line-of-sight and hard to measure from the ground.

I suppose they can ban the use of the system in the country and try jamming the satellite as it flies overhead, but I have trouble seeing this being a viable option. The population of Australia is less than 70% that of Canada and if the US pressed them on this Oz would probably figure it isn’t worth the fight.

I am no fan of Google but …

Why are the algorithms secret? There was a problem some years ago because the unscrupulous had found ways to game Google’s search algorithm. They created sites that looked like useful information but were merely designed to get you to click on Google Ads and thereby drive revenue to the site. The result was that web searches were pretty much useless. Some folks even opined that the problem would ki11 the internet. The monetary value of knowing Google’s search algorithm is huge. Handing it over for free to some business is theft pure and simple.

In Australia, the 2 major parties have an effective gerrymander over political leadership. Although the 2 major parties MUST be preferenced to make a vote formal, the 2 parties are basically the same. Although nominally, Labor is left of centre and Liberal are nominally right of centre, reality is that Labor are Socialist and Liberal are liberal. Both are being led by the left of Communist Greens.
We here in Australia are rapidly becoming a one party Socialist state. As it is highly unlikely that XXX XXXXXX will get the 50% + 1 votes to form Government, we are in a perilous state. At some stage, the collusion between Liberal and Labor will become apparent- we were forced to vote for what is effectively one party .
Under NO circumstances should anyone that cares about Australia’s future have a first preference for the major parties and certainly NOT the Greens.
Take note, they smear those they fear. The party that is most smeared as “racist”, “denier”, “antisemitic” etc has something that makes the traitors scared. They are the ones to vote for.
Yes, I am a member of this party, so I will not plug the name, but for those that can think, you know which party that is.
It is imperative that Australian Patriots get politically active, even if it is to join the Liberal party (not my party) to vote in decent delegates. They need to be turned around to not be Labor lite. There are people who can guide political novices. For the more daring, join and help out the smeared party. You will be surprised at how few people get all catty when they find out you are active with said smeared party. Many secretly admire their common sense patriotism, but have been sucked in by the smear and fear of being labelled racists if they support said party.
Think I am politically grandstanding? Better than being sucked down the vortex of totalitarian Socialism, with its enforcement of every propaganda/ fear campaign that goes around. The Socialist vortex is “powered” by the pagan belief that the 3% of CO2 increase that is from humans is going to destroy the planet and we must return to the stone age or the planet will be destroyed.

“She’ll be right mate”-this can only come about if the People wake up that we are being herded like sheep. Continue with our apathy and we WILL become enslaved and slaughtered.

This is not as back and white as many believe. One of the supporters of this change is the Murdock media and they are the furthest to the right and most opposed to the cancel culture. Their argument is that google et al are using their content to increase advertising revenues, which amounts to theft of their IP and this legislation would force google et al to pay for the use of MSM content. The notice being published by Google is more of a threat that they would simply not publish the local media content to avoid having to pay the fees and therefore users would get a worse service. The legislation being referred to above that requires Google to advise of search engine listing changes would be used to help determine the $ value payments to MSM outlets.

The bottom line here is that Google, Facebook, et al would be paying media companies for second hand use of their material and this would represent a profit loss for them and a profit gain for the media outlets. The AU government (IMO) is also possibly seeing this as a way of increasing tax revenues in this sector, having realised that huge profits by Google escape the tax system and falling profits by MSM outlets result in further tax losses. The conservative Murdock press is also far more affected by the IP theft than the far left government owned and subsidised ABC, and the more conservative LNP government obviously needs them to remain profitable and in business as they would also cease to exist in a conservative free media.