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Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Friday, July 10, 2026

David Farrar: The media should expose their own lobbying!

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The Post headline  (below): This was a law to legalise theft where tech companies would be forced to fund media companies, on the basis that...
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Thursday, November 6, 2025

Bob Edlin: What happened to $66bn......

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Come on PM – surely someone can tell you what happened to $66bn (and if officials are baffled, let’s give Google a go) The PM huffed and puf...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024

David Farrar: Scheme to levy fees on search engines and social media sites

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How annoyed would NZers be if NZ news media were no longer findable on search engines and social media? Readers will be aware that the Gover...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024

David Farrar: Will the Government see sense?

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Google announced : As a significant longtime supporter of New Zealand’s news industry, we are deeply concerned about the Fair Digital News B...
Friday, October 11, 2024

Dr Eric Crampton: Canada’s example shows how ‘link tax’ bill will fail

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New Zealand moves inexorably from the ‘faff around’ to the ‘find out’ phase of the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill process. On Friday, Goo...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Merja Myllylahti: AI search tools and chatbots may make NZ news less visible and reliable – new study

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Evidence is mounting that the new generative AI internet search tools provided by OpenAI, Google and Microsoft can increase the risk of re...
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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Eric Crampton: The 'shakedown' news legislation that is heading to parliament

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Shakedown rackets are, thankfully, illegal. Except when government legislates them. In that case, all bets are off. And if I were Facebook, ...
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Monday, August 7, 2023

Eric Crampton: Canada a cautionary tale for big tech paying for news

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Donald Trump convinced himself and a lot of Americans he could build a wall at America’s southern border and make Mexico pay for it. It was ...
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Sunday, August 20, 2017

Seton Motley: Silicon Valley’s ‘News’ Services Bad News for Less Government Everywhere

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For decades now, all of America’s major institutions – have been broadly, unquestionably Leftist, and rigidly opposed to any deviance fro...