Nine to pay over $600,000 following excessive surcharges
July 2, 2021 10:55
Subsidiaries of Nine Entertainment Co have paid $159,840 in penalties in response to infringement notices issued by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for allegedly charging subscribers and advertisers excessive payment surcharges.
The ACCC revealed that six subsidiaries of Nine were issued with notices for alleged offenses dating back to December 2018 when Nine merged with Fairfax Media.
At that time, Nine applied payment surcharges to digital and home delivery subscription services as well as radio, publishing, TV and digital advertising. Nine has since undertaken steps to rectify the matter with customers and advertisers, including removing surcharges for Visa Debit and Mastercard Debit cards for all subscription payments.
LETTER | Malaysiakini’s contempt of court: Let the media beware
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LETTER | Lawyers and media groups have understandably expressed concern over the Federal Court s decision to cite news organisation
Malaysiakini for contempt and fine it RM500,000 over five reader comments.
But didn’t the lawyers and media groups see it coming? Perhaps not the fine amount which is, arguably, excessive, but the contempt decision itself?
Based on the summary of the majority decision,
Malaysiakini admitted that the comments are indeed offensive, inappropriate, disrespectful, and contemptuous and regretted the publication of them. But both
Malaysiakini and editor-in-chief Steven Gan maintained that they both played no role in publishing them.