Australia moves to tax Meta, Google and TikTok to fund newsrooms (apnews.com)
from Gsus4@mander.xyz to world@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 11:45
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0li0li@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 12:12 next collapse

Go Australia, tax them the shit out if their safe heavens!

pHr34kY@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 22:17 collapse

They’re just grifting for Rupert. We don’t get the money.

emmy67@lemmy.world on 30 Apr 01:19 collapse

If the funding goes to independent news sources like 404media but in Australia. I’ll be very happy.

Unfortunately I don’t know of much in the way of independent media in Australia.

nbsp@programming.dev on 30 Apr 04:21 next collapse

we have loads of great independent media that collectively control about 0.01% of the market.

they will not be seeing this money. it’s going to the oligarchy controlled legacy media.

juice media did a great bit on the previous iteration of it www.thejuicemedia.com/news-corp-bargaining-code/

emmy67@lemmy.world on 30 Apr 08:42 collapse

I don’t see anything about it going directly to them only. Except for the 4 year old video. The code was supposed to be updated at least once since then. Any idea on what changed if anything?

Edit:

According to this it seems the only hurdles are “be a corporation” and have 150k in revenue over the last year. So the bar is pretty low tbh.

viov@lemmy.world on 30 Apr 09:42 collapse

We really need a list detailing which independent people-owned news media are best for specific countries, internationally, and online

What does 404media specialize in?

solutionsjournalism.org, goodgoodgood com & goodnewsnetwork.org are good too from my experience

ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca on 29 Apr 12:38 next collapse

Oh like Canada?

Yeah that won’t work.

Source: am Canadian

lost_faith@lemmy.ca on 29 Apr 12:42 next collapse

Maybe if they show some fortitude we may reconsid…hahhaahha

Enact the DST Mark

melsaskca@lemmy.ca on 29 Apr 12:43 collapse

Do we know if it worked? I thought the law got passed but we backed off from enforcing it due to america’s recent instability and trade “negotiations”. Source: Am befuddled Canadian.

Gsus4@mander.xyz on 29 Apr 12:49 next collapse

Yeah, if enough countries join, what are the facebooks going to do, go on strike? (if only)

ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca on 29 Apr 13:03 next collapse

All I know is I couldn’t share any news links to any Mwta platform. That was when I still had an account.

MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca on 29 Apr 15:43 collapse

It backfired, meta completely blocked all news and media sites, and any link from them—except for alt-right ones of course.

AmazingSUPERG@thelemmy.club on 29 Apr 12:38 next collapse

Donald won’t be happy. Canada had to give up on this idea.

anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 29 Apr 23:12 next collapse

If only a country did this, where 4 companies didn’t own 90% of the newspaper market.

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 29 Apr 23:44 next collapse

Maybe they should coordinate this with the EU and Canada to ram it through Trump’s tantrum.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 30 Apr 06:29 next collapse

if its going to Murdoch it isnt helping anything.

CyroSignal@lemmy.world on 30 Apr 09:11 next collapse

That’s a good thing.

viov@lemmy.world on 30 Apr 09:41 collapse

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