{"id":15731,"date":"2021-01-29T21:34:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=268004"},"modified":"2021-01-29T21:34:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:34:36","slug":"governments-google-facebook-laws-little-more-than-a-backrub-for-news-and-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/29\/governments-google-facebook-laws-little-more-than-a-backrub-for-news-and-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"Government\u2019s Google &amp; Facebook laws little more than a Backrub for News and Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/bye-bye-google.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bye Bye Google\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/bye-bye-google.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/bye-bye-google-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>Google threatens to withdraw search from Australia and Facebook to remove news posts. These are not idle threats. Is propping up old media with grants gouged from Google good public policy? It delivers cash for Rupert Murdoch but does it serve consumers? Kim Wingerei reports.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/governments-google-facebook-law-little-more-than-a-backrub-for-news-and-nine\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google threatens to withdraw search from Australia and Facebook to remove news posts. These are not idle threats. Is propping up old media with grants gouged from Google good public policy? It delivers cash for Rupert Murdoch but does it serve consumer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16257,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15731\/revisions\/16257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}