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Australia’s ACCC is protecting local media monopolists from Google and Facebook

The stakes have been raised in the Australian government’s stoush with Google and Facebook. Last week, Facebook joined Google in expressing opposition to the proposed new laws, threatening to block news sharing from Australian Facebook users. But the ACCC seems more concerned with protecting the market power of Australia’s old news publishers, and is squandering […]

by Mark Bowyer

In Google’s battle with the Australian Government, there’s no good guy

Australia’s regulator is barking up the wrong tree when it comes to dealing with Google and Facebook and news publishers.

by Mark Bowyer

Google – still enabling scams with impunity

Providing users with high quality, accurate and trusted information is sacrosanct to us.Sundar Pichai, CEO GoogleUS Congress 11 December 2018 When hackers accessed the Twitter accounts of some of the world’s most famous people last month, it was front page news the world over. Hacking the accounts of people like Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill […]

by Mark Bowyer

The world’s richest can’t save the United States

How could the world’s richest country, home to the world’s most successful drug and technology companies, richest plutocrats, and most prestigious universities, be incapable of providing essential medical care for its people?