ACCC seeks feedback on potential rules for large digital platforms
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) is seeking feedback on the dominance of digital platforms from consumers, businesses and other parties.
One of the topics, as explored in a discussion paper published today, is the role large digital platforms have in the ad tech space. The paper outlines several potential reforms, but the ACCC has not determined which it will recommend, including an option to recommend none of them.
You will not solve the Google problem by giving power to old media.
You solve the issue by helping to create competition and encouraging people to use other search engines. Google is a search engine. Not a media company. Not a publisher.
The current ‘google/facebook media link tax’ does not help freedom of press or allow free press to exist. It only entrenches those large dominate media companies (News Corp, Nine etc) and removes competition from the media landscape. Small independent media outlets only get squeezed out.