Google threatens to pull search engine in Australia in stand-off with government Tech giant opposes proposed law requiring it to pay local publishers for news
Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 07:33 Updated: Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 07:35
Managing director of Google Australia and New Zealand, Mel Silva, told a parliamentary hearing the proposed legislation is unworkable. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP
Google has threatened to disable its search engine in Australia if it is forced to pay local publishers for news in a dramatic escalation of a months-long stand-off with the government.
A proposed law, intended to compensate publishers for the value their stories generate for the company, is “unworkable”, Google’s managing director for Australia and New Zealand, Mel Silva, told a parliamentary hearing on Friday. She specifically opposed the requirement that Google pay media companies for displaying snippets of articles in search results.
Google threatened to disable its search engine in Australia if it’s forced to pay local publishers for news, a dramatic escalation of a months-long standoff with the government.
Google threatens to remove search engine in Australia as spat escalates
Angus Whitley, Bloomberg News Signage at an entrance to a building on the Google campus in Mountain View, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. , David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Google threatened to disable its search engine in Australia if itâs forced to pay local publishers for news, a dramatic escalation of a months-long standoff with the government.
A proposed law, intended to compensate publishers for the value their stories generate for the company, is âunworkable,â Mel Silva, managing director for Australia and New Zealand, told a parliamentary hearing Friday. She specifically opposed the requirement that Google pay media companies for displaying snippets of articles in search results.