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Google and Facebook’s threat to cut off its customers shows their ‘entrenched disregard’ for Aussies, a high-profile inquiry has heard.

Technology by Finn McHugh   Big tech's threats to punish Australians for proposed media reforms show its "sobering power" but are unlikely to be carried out, a senate inquiry has heard. Treasury and Communications Department officials will front the inquiry on Monday, as it sits for the second and final day. The federal government has stood firm in its push to force social media giants to pay for news content, despite an angry backlash from Facebook and Google. Google threatened to remove its search engine from Australia users at the inquiry last mon...

Technology by Finn McHugh   Big tech's threats to punish Australians for proposed media reforms show its "sobering power" but are unlikely to be carried out, a senate inquiry has heard. Treasury and Communications Department officials will front the inquiry on Monday, as it sits for the second and final day. The federal government has stood firm in its push to force social media giants to pay for news content, despite an angry backlash from Facebook and Google. Google threatened to remove its search engine from Australia users at the inquiry last mon...

Google and Facebook’s threat to cut off its customers shows their ‘entrenched disregard’ for Aussies, a high-profile inquiry has heard.

By Ross Mazur, Graduate Student, Colorado State University Impact MBA, Business Development & Project Engineer, Sustainable Fuels Consulting LLC Special to The Digest Hype, the ephemeral group discourse surrounding topics and ideas, is becoming more pervasive in our increasingly digital world. Although hype cycles, the temporal trends in societal perception of a specific technology or industry, are largely unavoidable and difficult to predict, they hold tremendous power to make or break industries. Hype can delay or even fully derail promising emerging technologies if poorly managed. Investor...