Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Australian media

Re:Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Au... by tmh88j on Sunday April 19, 2020 @05:37PM (#22918997)

>GM and Ford had no problem extracting itself from Australia,

The only thing they extracted were their manufacturing operations, GM and Ford still sell vehicles in Australia. They even have the Focus which Ford dropped for the American market! Unless Google and Facebook are going to close their offices but still provide service to Australia, that seems like an entirely different scenario.

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Re:Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Au... by postingawayonhn on Sunday April 19, 2020 @05:55PM (#22919117)

GM will effectively end sales once they wind down the Holden brand over the next year.

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Re:Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Au... by tmh88j on Sunday April 19, 2020 @06:04PM (#22919172)

They killed off Holden but they're still selling some Chevrolet models, and there have been a lot of Cadillac test mules spotted around Australia.

https://www.goauto.com.au/news/cadillac/spied-cadillac-ct5-p...

https://www.goauto.com.au/news/holden/gm-has-lsquo-a-future-...

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Re:Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Au... by thu2111 on Monday April 20, 2020 @04:14AM (#22922099)

They can certainly do that. It would mean Australian firms would need to buy ads through a foreign broker or sibling company, but many Australian advertisers would have those sorts of firms in existence already.

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