Google should just de-list News Corp and the other big media companies that dominate the Australian media industry and who often manipulate elections for their own benefit with one sided heavily biased coverage. Give some breathing space to the smaller players.
Wouldn't that just be Google manipulating coverage for Google’s benefit?
I don’t think Google should be blessing any publishers with special “news section” status. Let websites compete organically. Any media with finance capital backing is going to be biased in favor of wars and against labor.
There's a difference between giving special treatment and fully de-listing, kinda like what happened in Germany and Spain with Google News. This is a direct and targeted attack by NewsCorp, abusing their influence in australian politics to force a bill that benefits them. Why should Google help someone that is trying their best to attack them?
Being a neutral platform for speech is not ‘helping’ anyone. It helps the ideas the public agrees with the most, which is why Google and Newscorp are fighting to control internet media with backroom ‘partnerships’ rather than giving viewpoints that are actually popular a fair playing field.
Dominate or not they represent half of the Australian population more or less. You can't just bring news from the Guardian and expect it to appeal to all Australian. The question is, if you don't want to show News Corp what else will you show in order to give a voice for the Australians on the right side of the political map?
Someone else will step in to take their place. The only reason News Corp is even in this position is because they completely overstepped their bounds with Murdoch's political fuckery. There's no reason you can't have a professional conservative news company that plays by the rules, and if there's a market for it, someone will fill it, just like anything else.
