US Trade Reps Urge Australia Not to Rush Google, Facebook Payment Law
U.S. trade representatives have urged Australia to scrap proposed laws that will make it the first country in the world to force tech giants to pay local media companies for news content.
Assistant Trade Representatives Daniel Bahar and Karl Ehlers called on the government not to rush the laws and to work towards developing a voluntary code if possible.
“The U.S. Government is concerned that an attempt, through legislation, to regulate the competitive positions of specific players in a fast-evolving digital market, to the clear detriment of two U.S. firms (Google and Facebook), may result in harmful outcomes” according to its submission (pdf) to the Senate Economics Committee.
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Regarded as one of the founding fathers of the internet, Google vice president Vint Cert has attacked the Morrison government's proposed media bargaining code as "deeply flawed".
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