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    Australien will Meta, Google und TikTok besteuern, um Nachrichtenredaktionen zu finanzieren

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    2. SimUnit on

      This should happen worldwide, proportionate to the number of users of the platform in each tax base.

      And while I’m dreaming, countries should also impose journalistic standards on content on the platforms, and incentivise the platforms to have proper internal controls on what is published.

    3. AdminIsPassword on

      Every country should make US social media bleed. It’s a net negative to the world (including Reddit).

    6. QueasyKaleidoscope99 on

      Canada tried to tax US digital media and Trump went ballistic with tariff threats, so be prepared.

    8. salamisam on

      |“We think that investment in journalism is critical to a healthy democracy,” he added.

      The thing is is that dependent on how this is implemented the benefactors are outlets like Murdoch run newscorp, not the balanced idealism of investment in journalism is critical to a healthy democracy.

    9. LordMashie on

      It’s absurd that tech companies (as much as I hate to side with them) are the ones being forced to pay media organisations when *they’re* the ones providing the platforms for them to post on and said organisations CHOOSE to post their content on said platforms because it generates traffic. This isn’t your typical tax, it only applies if the tech companies refuse to make a deal to pay news companies directly.

      >“It shouldn’t just be able to be taken by a large multinational corporation and used to generate profits for that organisation with no compensation appropriate for the people who produce that creative content,” Albanese told reporters.

      Because if anyone needs compensation it’s Rupert Murdoch and his mob. /s

      I’m all for taxing big tech, but doing so just for the benefit of these media organisations is a real slap in the face.

    10. Overall-Phone7605 on

      Canada did this years ago and Meta just made it so you can’t link Canadian media on Facebook rather than pay us. This inadvertently led to an influx of fake Canadian news sites that skirt around the issue by being flat out disinformation. No one who uses Facebook noticed that you can’t link Canadian news to the site and they still think they’re getting real news when by definition it has to be fake.

      More countries should do this though. Meta can push us around because we’re small. An extra country on our side can’t hurt. I think we actually got the idea from Australia and yet when the dust cleared we were standing alone. (Similar to the counter tariffs on the US). Anyone from Australia wanna chime in on what happened?

    12. HadoBoirudo on

      New Zealand here… Our government is way too timid to do this (ie up Trump’s arse). Good on you Australia for leading the way though.

    13. DrSamwpepper on

      Every time I hear about Australia making a new law,its something literally cool.

    15. Cybrknight on

      Erm, they already were. Sounds to me like Murdoch wants a second dipping.

    16. Subtraktions on

      Instead of this, they should force them to pay their tax locally and fund it from the tax take. That way the companies have no way around it.

    17. mekanub on

      This isn’t the good thing it seems to be. This has been lobbied for by Newscorp/Foxnews as a way of subsidising their Australian operations due to falling pay tv subscriptions and ad revenue across all platforms.

      This money is used to support their propaganda efforts supporting Trump and conservative groups by creating or reposting content under their different media banners.

      We previously had these laws up until recently when Facebook pulled out of the previous deal and it cost them millions of dollars.

    18. 37GreaterThan4547 on

      „News“ is a word that should be removed from all languages. There is no such thing as news anymore. Sure, there may be journalists out there, working hard to uncover new information about important events, but once it is printed/recorded/published, it is so full of bias and drifted so far away from the raw truth, that ALL NEWS needs to be categorized as entertainment now. Fox led the way to a complete corruption of what was once something people could depend on. Social Media multiplied the issue by 100x.

      I decided recently to treat everything I don’t personally see in real life with my own eyes as fiction or entertainment. Is Trump Jesus or a doctor? I can’t decide which to believe. I’ve never seen him turn water to wine or heal anyone with my own eyes.

    19. thegameisafoooooot on

      And 3, 2, 1, creative accounting experts sought to circumvent these new challenges to their obscene profits. Calls to Ireland and stuff.

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