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bbc said that The battle between the Australian government and the tech giants over a law which would make them pay for news content has been rumbling on for a while.But Facebook’s move to ban all Australian news content from its platform has taken the conflict to a whole new level.
One of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers described it as “an act of war”. But others see the actions of Australia’s politicians as being an outrage against the principle of net neutrality.This week’s Tech Tent podcast asks whether Mark Zuckerberg overplayed his hand, making it more likely that other countries will follow Australia’s lead.
