After a worldwide outcry over Facebook’s blocking of Australian news, Australia and Facebook returned to the negotiating table on 19 March, but the Australian government insisted that it would not budge on a new law forcing social media platforms to pay for news content. At the same Time, the U.S. Congress is mulling a proposal to suppress the negotiating power of Facebook and Google in the near future to help smaller news organizations negotiate more easily with the social media giants.
Australian Prime Minister Morrison said at a press conference on the 20th that Facebook had returned to the negotiating table, and he was deeply relieved that Facebook had temporarily befriended Australia, and welcomed Facebook’s apology for mistakenly deleting non-Australian media charities and public health organizations from the blocking campaign. Morrison said the bans were completely unjustified. Australian Finance Minister Fredenberger said on the 19th, has spoken with Facebook CEO Zuckerberg to communicate to seek relief, and will continue to negotiate this weekend.
It is not clear when the negotiations and what results can be achieved. Australia and Facebook have so far insisted on their own views, that is, Australia insisted on promoting fee legislation, Facebook is firmly opposed to, in particular, does not accept the amount of payment to be determined by an independent arbitration committee.
The United States intends to legislate to help small media against technology giants
At the same time, Reuters nineteen exclusive disclosure, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee of the antitrust subcommittee of the chief Republican Buck (Ken Buck) pointed out on the eighteenth, the Democratic and Republican consensus, the group will put forward a series of antitrust laws, the first is the proposal in the next few weeks to help “small shrimp “News organizations can more easily negotiate with Facebook and Google and other social giants. The U.S. News Media Alliance (News Media Alliance) pointed out that large media may be able to negotiate with social media platforms, but in the past, often by the “individual crackdown” of small media, only through joint action for fair value.
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