{"id":181703,"date":"2021-02-18T16:54:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/australia-goes-ahead-with-news-content-law-despite-facebook-blackout\/"},"modified":"2021-02-18T16:54:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:54:36","slug":"australia-goes-ahead-with-news-content-law-despite-facebook-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/australia-goes-ahead-with-news-content-law-despite-facebook-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"#Australia goes ahead with news content law despite Facebook blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Australia goes ahead with news<\/a> content law despite Facebook<\/a> blackout<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Australian officials say they\u2019re forging ahead with efforts to make tech giants pay for news content even after Facebook imposed a media blackout there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll be proceeding with the code,\u201d Communications Minister Paul Fletcher told Australia\u2019s ABC News<\/a> on Thursday. \u201cWe want Google and Facebook to stay in Australia, but we\u2019ve been very clear that if you do business in Australia you need to comply with the laws passed by the elected parliament of this nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fletcher joined other top officials in decrying Facebook\u2019s decision to block Australian users from viewing or sharing news content on the platform.<\/p>\n

The stunning move was a response to Australia\u2019s proposed news media bargaining code, which would allow news publishers to negotiate payments from tech giants for the use of their content that app<\/a>ears in search results or news feeds.<\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s blockade appeared aimed at news publishers, but it also blocked content from other entities including a government weather agency and state health department.<\/p>\n

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Facebook said it restricted so many Australian pages because the draft law did not clearly define news content; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cFacebook\u2019s actions to unfriend Australia today, cutting off essential information services on health and emergency services, were as arrogant as they were disappointing,\u201d Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on his own Facebook page<\/a>. \u201cWe will not be intimidated by BigTech seeking to pressure our Parliament as it votes on our important News Media Bargaining Code.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fletcher said officials were continuing to discuss the proposed law with Facebook as the bill headed for a vote in Australia\u2019s Senate after passing in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

He noted that Google \u2014\u00a0which had threatened to shut off its search engine in Australia if the proposal becomes law \u2014 took the more conciliatory approach of making deals with news publishers including News Corp., which owns The Post.<\/p>\n

The proposal is \u201cabout having a diverse, well-resourced media sector in Australia. That\u2019s an important part of our democratic process,\u201d Fletcher told ABC. \u201cMay not seem so important perhaps in Silicon Valley but it\u2019s very important to the Australian government and the Australian people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Facebook said it restricted so many Australian pages because the draft law did not clearly define news content. The company added that it would restore access to pages that had mistakenly been taken down.<\/p>\n

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Fletcher said officials were continuing to discuss the proposed law with Facebook.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cThe actions we\u2019re taking are focused on restricting publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content,\u201d a Facebook spokesperson said<\/a>. \u201cAs the law does not provide clear guidance on the definition of news content, we have taken a broad definition in order to respect the law as drafted.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Post wires<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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“#Australia goes ahead with news content law despite Facebook blackout” Australian officials say they\u2019re forging ahead with efforts to make tech giants pay for news content even after Facebook imposed a media blackout there. \u201cWe\u2019ll be proceeding with the code,\u201d Communications Minister Paul Fletcher told Australia\u2019s ABC News on Thursday. \u201cWe want Google and Facebook…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/facebook-australia.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[93894,20358,4974,115,70934,4976],"class_list":["post-181703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-18-21","tag-australia","tag-facebook","tag-news","tag-regulation","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}