Google has announced that it will disable the search function in Australia if the Camberra Parliament approves an obligation, such as Facebook and other major technologies, to pay local media to publish their content.
According to the project, which was presented last month by the Parliament of Camberra, the Government will designate an intermediary to determine the amount to be paid in return for the content that is published on the Internet platforms in case a single agreement is reached. negotiation between the parties.
“If this version of the code is found here, we will not have another option to keep Google Search (Google Search) available in Australia”, said Google Australia’s managing director Mel Silva, in a virtual comparison Senate committee analyzing the bill.
Silva recalls that this option is called “in the peer scenario”, insisting that for Google the legislative proposal “creates an unmanageable risk for our businesses in a digital economy. It is not compatible with the form in which search engines operate”.
Google has announced the appointment of Google, the Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison, to the Brisbrane periodicals that Parliament and the Government of Camberra will determine the rules of the game and “if they work with them, in Australia, they are welcome, per we will not respond to requests “.
The Senate committee is expected to present the February 12 announcement of this project, which has been criticized by the creator of the World Wide Web, Britain’s Tim Berners-Lee, who could oppose “web principles” to request the page to upload related content online “.
For its part, Gobierno’s state commercial representatives Daniel Bahar and Karl Ehlers instructed Camberra to “suspend” its plans to close this project in order to be able to generate “pre-emptive dealings with Australia’s international trade unions”. a card to the committee.
The proposal, which pretends to protect local media, responds to the recommendations of the Australian Competence and Consumption Commission in December 2019 and provides information on the impact of scammers and social media in the media and media markets.
In the long run, Google has agreed with the editors of French periodicals on a system for remuneration for the publication of its contents, which has a content of which it has attached to the tribunals.