A policy I'm definitely keeping an eye on: how Australian news companies shakedown Facebook and Google, and other bad ideas from Down Under that may be spreading elsewhere.
Australia’s latest export is bad media policy, and it’s spreading fast
The U.K. and Canada look ready to copy Australia's idea to force Google and Facebook to give publishers money. But it's a warped system that rewards the wrong things and lies about where the real value in news lies.
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