Whether Australia caved or Facebook caved seems to hinge on some rather subtle distinctions (and what you wanted to believe to begin with). But the fact that Facebook and Google will not be covered by the new law is not exactly a victory.
The Australian PR message is basically “we wrote such a staggering terrible law that the people it was aimed at paid to avoid being covered by it”. That doesn’t sound like a great way to make policy.
Wait - so does this mean that Bing now has to pay newspapers a fee every time they show up in search, the way they promised, while Google (and Facebook don’t)? That would be hilarious
But any way you cut it, Google and Facebook said that it would be impossible for them to do business if they were covered by this law, and the government has now said ‘okay then, you won’t be’
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