New Zealand follows Canada, Australia requiring Facebook, Google to pay for news

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New Zealand said it will introduce a law that will require big online digital companies to pay N.Z. media companies for local news content.

He added that there has been a significant decline in journalists in the last decade.

“It’s not fair that the big digital platforms like Google and Meta get to host and share local news for free. It costs to produce the news and it’s only fair they pay,” he said, according to Stuff news website. “In Canada, deals are being done everywhere. They’ve just done 150 deals because they don’t want to go legislation,” he said.

Australia introduced a law in 2021 that gave the government power to make internet companies negotiate content supply deals with media outlets. A review released by the Australian government last week found it largely worked.Article content

 

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Nuts

Fair enough, if the media didn’t post the content to the platform then the platform should block the post or pay for the content. Personally I think they should just block the content until it is posted willingly be the media that created it, then it can be shared for free.

It's already scammed once taxpayers dollars going for Liberal lies now they want to corporations to pay for the liberalize and propaganda I'll give you a 50 cents for a whole year

No worries we don't follow you

Wonderful, you just put that link on Twitter yourselves! And now you want Twitter to pay you for that! You guys are ridiculous, you don't know the first thing about business, which is why you're all going down and posting nothing but nonsense and fake news.

Excellent..... SchwabSquad

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