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Greens Senator grills Google boss over hell of a threat to remove search function22/01/2021|5min
Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young grilled Google boss Melanie Silva for threatening to shut down Google search in Australia in a bid to avoid paying for news content.
Google Australia Managing Director Melanie Silva told a Senate committee hearing on Friday the company would leave the Australian market if the proposed news media bargaining code goes ahead.
The code seeks to force digital giants to pay media outlets for news content on their platforms or face fines of up to $10 million.
“You’ve come here this morning and told us that only 1.25 of search result are news, and yet if this legislation passes, you’ll shut down news for everybody, for everything across the country,” Ms Hanson-Young said.