[HN Gopher] Could Google Really Leave Australia?
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       Could Google Really Leave Australia?
        
       Author : pseudolus
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-01-22 16:23 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | simonblack wrote:
       | This is really a fight over money between Rupert Murdoch's
       | Fox/Newscorp Empire and Google.
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       | A win-win situation for Australia would be for Google to withdraw
       | from Australia and Rupert to not get any money from Google.
        
       | mianos wrote:
       | I still can't see why google can't just remove Australian news
       | sites from the index? It should be a very small list for
       | Australia. They already do this for copyright claims.
        
         | jazoom wrote:
         | Ars Technica article suggested Australia's new laws also makes
         | that illegal.
         | 
         | As an Australian, I think this is silly. Our current government
         | really sucks with technological issues.
        
           | gumby wrote:
           | I agree. They declared legislation superior to mathematics.
           | Crazy.
        
         | conro1108 wrote:
         | They probably could, but at least at this point they're
         | probably more concerned with discouraging other governments
         | from trying to pass similar laws.
        
       | killingtime74 wrote:
       | Please leave, we'd love it
        
         | rasz wrote:
         | Like you loved GM leaving?
        
           | simonblack wrote:
           | GM _cost_ Australia to stay. Australia is is better off
           | overall without GM.
        
           | eindiran wrote:
           | GM as in General Motors? Is there some context here I am not
           | aware of?
        
       | kalium-xyz wrote:
       | Please also leave all other countries I do business with. :)
        
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