[LINK] Google has removed Canberra buses from directions in google maps

Kim Holburn kim.holburn at gmail.com
Sun Feb 28 18:57:07 AEDT 2021




On 2021/02/28 1:14 pm, Noel Butler wrote:
 > On 22/02/2021 14:04, Kim Holburn wrote:
 >
 >> I don't understand why people think this bill is a good idea in any way at all.  It's an extortionate tax for google and facebook
 >> and a free government handout to prop up our foreign-owned commercial media oligopoly.
 >>
 >> I don't like google and facebook as much as the next guy, but why don't we just make them pay tax properly?  And for god's sake
 >> let Murdoch media and nine media pay proper tax and die like the dinosaurs they are.
 >
 > Got nothing to do with tax,

It's clearly a tax if the only end result is that Google and Facebook have to fork over money because the government tells them to. 
That's... a tax.

(https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210226/11062646326/best-summary-australias-news-link-tax-bargaining-code.shtml)

Otherwise, I agree with you.

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