Does it matter if Rupert doesn't get money from Google? His news assets still have print versions, his channels still have media versions, and if Google exits, they'll just concede the entire Aus market to Bing/DDG. Sure the people won't like it, but the more Google actually goes through with its threat, the more evidence it will provide for an antitrust case back home.
I disagree, Google is not making a threat and is not abusing its market position. A search engine simply cannot exist if it is required to pay for links to content.
Rupert Murdoch and his corporations are incredibly damaging to Australia and to the USA. We should oppose his lobbying efforts everywhere we can.
I think Google is now no longer a good company, but it is not nearly as bad as Fox News or Comcast or other companies that truly abuse their market position.
The one area that Google does actually abuse is Google Ads, the auction system there is basically a scam against small business unfortunately.
A search engine can also simply post titles and links, without indexing content.
Google is much worse than Fox News. At least Fox News doesn't harvest my information when I browse CNN and target ads at me. Not to mention the stuff Google does while lobbying without our knowledge.
Google is 92% ads, so if it abuses that portion, it's abusing 92% of its business monopolistically.
