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Google vows to change Australian media code, saying it would worsen Google Search, YouTube (Update*)

By Laurel Henning ( August 17, 2020, 02:28 GMT | Insight) -- Australian plans to make Google and Facebook pay for the news content they feature would unfairly advantage big news businesses and provide a “dramatically worse” Google Search and YouTube experience, Google and YouTube executives have said. In a blog post published today, which was rebuffed by the country’s competition regulator, Gautam Anand, head of Youtube's Asia-Pacific operations, said the media code would disadvantage YouTube vloggers, music artists and educational creators at the cost of handing over large amounts of money to news companies "above and beyond what they earn on the platform." Australian plans to make Google and Facebook pay for the news content they feature would unfairly advantage big news businesses and provide a “dramatically worse” Google Search and YouTube experience, Google and YouTube executives have said....

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