I feel there is some truth to what you are saying, however it is a question of measure.
Google is something like 16 times the size of Newscorp. Noone likes Murdoch, but you can’t compare his empire to Google.
Google apparently captures over 50% of the Australian advertising spent. Together with Facebook, they cover 80%.
Big Tech needs absolutely much more than this law. And so does Murdoch’s entreprise. But the last decades have gone so horribly wrong in this space that you shouldn’t expect the first step to be the ideal response.
If this takes Google search out of a G20 country, I’d say that it will have quite positive impacts for people everywhere as a precedent. Together with the recent Big Tech demonstration of political power in an unrelated area (taking the president off social networks), perhaps this can be part of mobilising people and governments to move away from the reliance on Silicon Valley’s infrastructure.
Quite clearly I’m overly optimistic in the above statement. However, if I’d have to imagine a realistic first step towards a solution to the problem of Big Tech, it might be something like this…
Don’t get me wrong, this is by no means sufficient, but it has to start somehow, no?
I feel there is some truth to what you are saying, however it is a question of measure.
Google is something like 16 times the size of Newscorp. Noone likes Murdoch, but you can’t compare his empire to Google.
Google apparently captures over 50% of the Australian advertising spent. Together with Facebook, they cover 80%.
Big Tech needs absolutely much more than this law. And so does Murdoch’s entreprise. But the last decades have gone so horribly wrong in this space that you shouldn’t expect the first step to be the ideal response.
If this takes Google search out of a G20 country, I’d say that it will have quite positive impacts for people everywhere as a precedent. Together with the recent Big Tech demonstration of political power in an unrelated area (taking the president off social networks), perhaps this can be part of mobilising people and governments to move away from the reliance on Silicon Valley’s infrastructure.
Quite clearly I’m overly optimistic in the above statement. However, if I’d have to imagine a realistic first step towards a solution to the problem of Big Tech, it might be something like this…
Don’t get me wrong, this is by no means sufficient, but it has to start somehow, no?