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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 would prevent tech companies like Google and Facebook from walking away from compensation negotiati...

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 don't respond to threats. Australia makes our rules for things you can do in Australia, Morrison told reporters in Brisbane. That's done in our Parliament. It's done by our government. And that's how things work here in Australia. Morrison's comments came after Mel Silva, the managing director of Google Australia and New Zealand, told a Senate inquiry into the bill...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison hit back at #Google, saying "we don't 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 declaration that if the government’s proposed laws went ahead, Google would disable its search function for ...

Facebook Will Ensure Zero News Appear In Your Feed If The News Code Goes Through Share To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Facebook has reiterated a previous threat to get rid of news for Australian users, this time reminding Australian politicians that news is a “very small” proportion of the content that they show to users. As part of the inquiry into the Treasury Laws Amendm...