Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news

Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by Cakez0r on Friday July 31, 2020 @06:57AM (#24007443)

Countries are competing in a market for tax revenue too. If a country wants more tax revenue from a business, they can either close the legal loopholes that allow the business to reduce the amount of tax that they pay or make their tax laws more competitive with those of other countries.

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Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by mordae on Friday July 31, 2020 @07:15AM (#24007558)

OMG, this is golden. It's a race to the bottom. It ends up completely destroying states and replacing them with corporations.

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Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by mark_l_watson on Friday July 31, 2020 @08:06AM (#24007838)

I like your comment, not sure if you are joking though. A few decades ago when I started reading William Gibson’s cyber punk sci-fi, I often wondered if the corporate run enclaves in his stories would anticipate real events.

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Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by zentiggr on Friday July 31, 2020 @10:20AM (#24008806)

Neal Stephenson - "Snow Crash". Even the U.S. Government is reduced to a "franchulate".

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Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by Cakez0r on Saturday August 01, 2020 @05:37AM (#24019098)

If the police are defunded, I'd bet that private security companies would fill the void and we'd be well on our way to "Stephensonion" being the next "Orwellian"!

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