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© Getty Images A Google official on Friday said the search engine would have “no real choice,” but to stop making the service available in Australia if the country’s government does not alter a proposed law to pay publishers for news.  The Australian law proposed over the summer states that media companies will be able to request payment from Google and Facebook for news articles posted on the platforms.  Media companies and news organizations have defended the measure, arguing that it...

Google on Friday threatened to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government went ahead with plans to make tech giants pay for news content. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison quickly hit back, saying we dont respond to threats. Australia makes our rules for things you can do in Australia, Morrison told reporters in Brisbane. Thats done in our Parliament. Its done by our government. And thats how things work here in Australia. Morrisons comments came after Mel Silva,...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison hit back at #Google, saying "we dont respond to threats."

Advertisement If the internet is the modern Wild West, Google has emerged as the tough town of Tombstone, and Facebook as Dodge City. Google’s gunslingers have gone so far as threatening to send their own Australian search engine on a one-way trip to the Boot Hill graveyard if the Australian government doesn’t back down from an attempt to force them to pay up. “It’s not a threat. It’s a reality,” said Google Australia’s managing director, Mel Silva, when asked about her declaratio...

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Google Threatens to Remove Search Engine in Australia Over Proposed Law Google on Friday said it may make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government carries out a plan for search engines to pay for news content. “If this version of the code were to become law, it would give us no real choice but to stop making Google search available in Australia,” Mel Silva, Google’s managing director for the region, told Australian senators. “And that would be a bad outcome not only ...

However Australian Prime Minister has vowed not to kowtow to the companies, telling journalists "we dont respond to threats". The code, designed to "level the playing field" by ensuring Australias struggling journalism industry, has not been well-received by tech companies, who have pushed back hard against it. "If the code becomes law, Google would have no real choice but to stop providing search in Australia," Silva told an Australian Senate hearing on Friday. "Thats a worst-case scenario and...