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Google issues a blog post attacking Microsoft for "naked corporate opportunism." Weird to see Google stepping up to defend the US and NATO now when they themselves don't want to work with the U.S. and NATO allies. But nice to see the era of 'Scroogled' may come back now...

With some amendments, it seems like Australia's Law, the News Media Bargaining Code, has passed. As explained by the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56163550

War is over... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-media/facebook-refriends-australia-after-changes-to-media-laws-idUSKBN2AN07E It looks like after a week of conflict, both sides have declared victory, though apparently in a more accurate sense, Facebook actually won because Australia...

I wanted a war... I wanted Google to bend the knee only after thousands of people Down Under decided to use DuckDuckGo or Yippy or Yahoo Search o Bing as their search engine of choice.

War Has Begun https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2021/02/17/australia-law-has-google-making-publisher-deals-facebook-walking/6785773002/ Sadly Google bent the knee. But Facebook has refused linking Australian published news on their platform.

Found this article via the Bing News Aggregate... :p https://apnews.com/article/business-satya-nadella-australia-scott-morrison-0c73c32ea800ad70658bc77a96962242 Australia's PM has been talking with Microsoft about Bing replacing Google as the primary search engine. Microsoft's Bing Search...

https://theprint.in/tech/australia-says-inevitable-that-google-others-will-have-to-pay-media-companies-for-news/591168/ The Australian Treasurer stated that Google paying media companies for news is "inevitable." Also pointed out in the article is that both Google and Facebook are targeted by...

It does seem like another engagement in a long line of disputes between traditional media and Google and it's environs. I remember being rather supportive of Google (or rather it's content creators on YouTube) when the Wall Street Journal in their "expose" shamed advertisers into triggering the...

https://www.techradar.com/nz/news/google-threatens-to-block-search-in-australia-if-pay-for-news-law-is-passed But only if the democratically elected Australian government dares pass a new law that would compel the "company to pay Australian news media for the right to link to their content."...