JAKARTA – Tech giant Google sent an open letter to the Australian government. Because Australia plans to force Google to share revenue from every news content that appears on platform-his.
Launch TechCrunchSince last April, the Australian Competition and Consumers Commission (ACCC) has issued a regulation asking technology giants like Google and Facebook to share revenue with local news agencies from any published content.
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In addition, the Australian government also said that their personal data was not safe using the Google platform. The rules will include millions of dollars in fines, for non-compliance and enforce transparency around the closely-guarded algorithms that companies use to rank content.
In response to this, Google sent an open letter on Monday, August 17, explaining about the enforcement of regulations by the Australian Government. Where Google explains that it has partnered with local media offices, regarding publishing content on Google search pages.
“Instead of encouraging this kind of partnership, the law was created to give major media companies special treatment and to encourage them to make extremely large and unreasonable demands that would jeopardize our free service,” reads Managing’s open letter. Director of Google Australia, Mel Silva, Tuesday 18 August.
Google’s open letter to the Australian government (Google screenshot)
Responding to the open letter, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) believed that Google had misinterpreted the draft rules that would be imposed by Australia. Where these rules are actually, will oversee digital platforms in business competition.
“Google will not be required to share additional user data with Australian news businesses unless it chooses to do so. The law also does not require Google to charge fees for its services such as Google Search and YouTube,” said ACCC.
Described by the ACCC in the draft rules it allows Australian news agencies to negotiate fair payment for journalist work included in Google services. This will address the imbalance in the news media business in Australia published on both Google and Facebook.
Moreover, based on the ACCC report, technology companies such as Google and Facebook generate revenues of more than 600 million US dollars a year. This is inversely proportional to the condition of local news agencies in Australia which have experienced a crisis since the pandemic.
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