Labor’s baffling bid to control what news sources you see first on the TV is a line that should never be crossed in a free society.
The law would mean smart TVs and news aggregator services must put the ABC ahead of Sky News while search results would be manipulated to drive Australians to videos produced by the national broadcaster.You would not wish to live there.such laws oppressing his people as the “locomotive in the process of modernising the country”.
Labor’s Communication Minister Michelle Rowland is no Chernyshenko but her plan is much the same.There are several mistakes made in this paper but the most egregious is the same fallacy being pushed by Chernyshenko, that the laws are needed to modernise struggling industries. “In 2019, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Digital Platforms Inquiry found that online advertising had progressively eroded broadcast TV revenues.
Despite all of the advantages governments and platforms provide the national broadcaster, the ABC loses many audience battles due to the freedom people have to choose their news source. The free to airs are even pushing for Labor to legislate that they get algorithmic advantage on these devices.
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