On 2021/02/28 1:14 pm, Noel Butler wrote:
> On 22/02/2021 14:04, Kim Holburn wrote:
>
>> I don't understand why people think this bill is a good idea in any way at
all. It's an extortionate tax for google and facebook
>> and a free government handout to prop up our foreign-owned commercial media
oligopoly.
>>
>> I don't like google and facebook as much as the next guy, but why don't we
just make them pay tax properly? And for god's sake
>> let Murdoch media and nine media pay proper tax and die like the dinosaurs
they are.
>
> Got nothing to do with tax,
It's clearly a tax if the only end result is that Google and Facebook have to fork over money because the government tells them to.
That's... a tax.
(https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210226/11062646326/best-summary-australias-news-link-tax-bargaining-code.shtml)
Otherwise, I agree with you.
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