Date Time Australian government is to blame for Facebook ban Australian government’s shortsighted policy dictated by media overlord Rupert Murdoch and the likes to turn back digital transformation and implement a transfer of power [and money] from Google and Facebook to these media moguls (media is 98% owned by 3 individuals in Australia) has today at least partially reached its target. Today Facebook blocked Australian users from sharing or viewing both local and international news content on the platform, and blocked Australian publishers from publishing their news on the platform both to domestic and international audience. Both Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, who have spearheaded the unworkable media bargaining code written with the stone age logic to regulate today’s technology, rushed to blame and condemn “arrogant” and “wrong” Facebook.