Facebook slams ACCC recommendations as as ‘unprecedented’ in digital platforms response
Facebook executives have slammed the recommendations of ACCC’s digital platforms inquiry, calling the regulator’s proposals ‘unprecedented’ and warning they risk restricting Australians’ access to online services.
Facebook’s global associate general counsel for competition, Samantha Knox, told journalists at the launch of the service’s response to the ACCC’s preliminary report that the regulator’s proposals were ‘unprecedented’.
“The proposed level of regulatory intervention for the news regulator and ad regulator is unprecedented as far as I’ve seen,” Knox said.
“We have serious concerns about the impact the two proposed regulators will have on Australian consumers and businesses.”
The issue from a media analysts’ point of view in the struggle by publishers to corral the hard work into a pay for view environment is, should Facebook curate its audience postings where the audience often repurposes behind paywall content, thus destroying the paywall purpose.
There has to be a “cut” in the corruption of IP. It is Facebook’s responsibility to ensure that its platform does not aide a circumvention of paywalls. At least Google is the right thing and acts, as newsagent did in the old days fora 25% cover price cut and where the newsagent showcased all the regularly published print media. Google gets its similar fee for attracting a search audience to begin with.