A lobby group representing Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Uber, and X has urged the White House to take aim at Australian laws it believes are “discriminatory”
A lobby group representing Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Uber, and X has urged the White House to take aim at Australian laws it believes are “discriminatory”
Lobby group argues local regulations are 'discriminatory'.
TBF, some of our tech laws are stupid, eg, the government can force an Aussie tech worker to insert a backdoor in code, and they can be jailed if they talk about it.
But they're not discriminatory. They are equally stupid for everyone.
Yeah to be honest, if I hear about a law in Australia that affects technology, my default position is that it's probably a bad one. That's a stance I've developed thanks to long experience of it mostly being the case that our tech laws are dumb.
A more recent example: the News Media Bargaining Code. Literally requiring Google to pay Murdoch's news outlets for sending traffic to them. If there was any sensible financial transaction, it would be the other way around.
Or for something under the Labor Government, the social media minimum age laws, which were rammed through without time for real public consultation or debate in Parliament.
Fuck America. We don't want their tyrannical oligarchic bullshit here. trump and his hopelessly incompetent government think they can coerce other countries into doing whatever they want through tariffs, the rest of the world needs to start a new global economy without the US in it.
In the US right now we're witnessing the logical conclusion of capitalism and unless you're one of a handful of people it's not pretty. Unregulated capitalism needs to end or it's going to take us all down. We should be looking to emulate the democratic socialist countries of Europe, but it's never going to happen while we sit back and let rich people's kids rule our lives.
We already have out mining magnate oligarchy. We don't need any more.
can we make them cage match fight tho?
Yet we’ve been welcoming it here for decades now. An entire generation has grown up American brained fed American media.
At least we've got some of them speaking in our accent now after Bluey
So google is among the reich also. Now I know
No. Read past the headline. While they don't like it, Google is like the only US company actually complying with the Australian media code.
Getting lumped in with the others because you are a member of the same association is like me getting blamed for the actions of my local member of parliament because he represents me.
Let's call them what they really are, the fucking tech Mafia.
I just wish the average fuckwit would wake up and get off Facebook. That's the sticking point. Imagine the Australian govt banning Facebook: there would be protests massively bigger than over lockdowns. Because so few people could see the danger of a monopoly on how people communicate before people got addicted.
I hate this timeline.
-putting its members' revenue “at risk”.
Well cry me a fucking river
Failure to make utterly obscene profit and merely having to settle for extremely obscene is not discrimination
Any Americans working for these companies? https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184