Technology giant Google has threatened to remove its search engine service in Australia, countering the Australian government’s demand that large technology companies pay these industry players for publishing news in the Australian media, which has also sharply escalated the conflict between Google and the Australian government over the past month.
The managing director of Google’s New Australia operation, Silva, said in an Australian parliamentary hearing that the government’s proposed regulation would be difficult to put into action. The regulation is intended to compensate the media industry for the value of news content produced by Google. In particular, she objected to the fact that Google would be forced to pay news media companies if they listed news summaries and web links in their search results.
The threat to remove the Australian search engine service is the strongest countermeasure Google has ever taken, and Google is now trying to prevent regulatory actions around the world. According to the Australian competition regulator, at least 94% of local Internet searches are done through Google.
We ignore these kinds of threats,” Australian Prime Minister Morrison said on 22 February. Australia sets the norms of how we do things in this land, and those are done in Parliament and through the government, and that’s the way Australia does things,” he said.
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