Google threatens Australia.

[billy the kid]

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australi ... that-last-
Another SloMo stuffup...

[Black Orchid]

Link doesn't work but here's another one.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-22/ ... e/13079912

I don't know how I feel about it yet but Google sucks anyway. DuckDuckGo is a better search engine. It's non invasive, respects your privacy and gives you all sides of the news instead of the biased leftist narrative that Google always presents in a search.

[Black Orchid]

Google made $4.8 billion in Oz last year.

[billy the kid]

Id be interested to know how much tax they paid...probably next to zero...

[billy the kid]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-01/ ... x/11060474
Google make billions...yet only pay $40 million in tax...
For decades, overseas countries have been operating in Australia and not paying much...if any...tax...
Australia has always given these "concessions" to encourage overseas investment....
Maybe its time to start paying the piper....
After all.....Australia is broke....
Oh by the way.....
Googles employs 1500 people in Australia...
Will all these folk lose their jobs if Google folds up its tents....
OR will SloMo just fold like a deck of cards......

[sprintcyclist]

Link doesn't work but here's another one.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-22/ ... e/13079912

I don't know how I feel about it yet but Google sucks anyway. DuckDuckGo is a better search engine. It's non invasive, respects your privacy and gives you all sides of the news instead of the biased leftist narrative that Google always presents in a search.

A guy at work ranted about how bad the Aussie govt is and how we would implode with out google ......

I am sure there are many other search engines that work quite ok

[billy the kid]

Dont know whats in the bill, but I gather that everyone will have to pay.....
Duckduckgo...everyone....
Wouldnt be a Murdoch ploy would it....
Dont forget it was Rudd who launched the attack on News Corp and sought
a Royal Commission into the power of News Corp in Australia....
AND we complain about the Democrats and their "media support" in the USA...
Australia is no better.....
The Herald Sun by example is the most powerful institution in Victoria...
far more powerful than the government....

[Black Orchid]

Google refuses to acknowledge Australia Day. January 26, 2021 is their default.

[Super Nova]

Tell them to go.

Pay taxes or go, that simple.

When other countries follow suit, they will reconsider.

[Black Orchid]

YouTube, the video platform service that is a Google subsidiary, has banned The Epoch Times, a rising, conservative-leaning media outlet, from earning money off its videos.

"YouTube demonetized the Epoch Times and related accounts last week," Stephen Gregory, publisher of The Epoch Times confirmed to Just the News on Tuesday in an email. "This is the latest example of big tech suppression of free speech, a step on the road to communist-style censorship."

The move by YouTube follows Twitter earlier this month de-platforming former President Trump and some conservative users, and the app Parler being denied web hosting services by Amazon.

Larry Elder, a prominent, African-American conservative filmmaker who hosts a video series for The Epoch Times, confirmed during an interview with the "Just the News AM" television program that the de-monetization hit him personally, reducing his income.

"We have to build our own infrastructure, our own social media platforms," Elder said, pointing to alternative social platforms like Gab.com and video service Rumble.com. "The only answer is not to $#@!, moan and whine about how how unfairly we're being treated, not to run to the government to pass more regulations. The answer is to build our own platforms. And we have been asleep at the switch."

https://justthenews.com/nation/technolo ... eo-content

Do not support Google's loony left fascist agenda.