GOOGLE S threat to withdraw services from millions of Australians to evade a law was a sobering demonstration of its monopoly power, a Senate inquiry heard today. The second Senate hearing into Australia s news media bargaining code also heard backing away from regulating the US firm would show big tech is now more powerful than our elected government. And it was claimed the tech giant s argument that paying to share news would break the way Google Search works was disingenuous at best … misinformation at worst, and fielded proposals for more small outlets to be included in the code. However, Google launched a new public campaign against the laws on the same day, adding an advertisement to its Australian home page.
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