{"id":188903,"date":"2021-06-02T21:52:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T21:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=280068"},"modified":"2021-06-02T21:52:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T21:52:17","slug":"protection-racket-digital-media-code-a-farce-as-google-and-facebook-not-designated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/02\/protection-racket-digital-media-code-a-farce-as-google-and-facebook-not-designated\/","title":{"rendered":"Protection Racket: Digital Media Code a farce as Google and Facebook not \u201cdesignated\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/digital-media-bargaining-code.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"digital media bargaining code, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp,\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/digital-media-bargaining-code.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/digital-media-bargaining-code-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>Google and Facebook are yet to be \"designated\" under the Digital Media Bargaining Code, leaving the Code a farce rather than the touted \"world-first reform\". Pressure on the platforms meant a small transfer of money from them to the old media allies of the Government such as News Corp and Nine but the essential challenge of reforms to the \"surveillance capitalism\" giants remains unaddressed. Kim Wingerei reports.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/protection-racket-digital-media-code-a-farce-as-google-and-facebook-not-designated\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Facebook are yet to be &#8220;designated&#8221; under the Digital Media Bargaining Code, leaving the Code a farce rather than the touted &#8220;world-first reform&#8221;. Pressure on the platforms meant a small transfer of money from them to the old media allies of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[923],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188903"}],"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=188903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188904,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188903\/revisions\/188904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}