No Comments On Tuesday, South Korea’s parliament approved a bill that bans major app store operators such as Google and Apple from forcing software developers to use their payment systems. The bill effectively stops the tech giants from charging commissions on in-app purchases. Dubbed the “Anti-Google law, 180 voted in favor out of 188 attending to pass […]
No Comments Google has blocked several Australian news sites from its search results, in a move that is being interpreted as a response to the Australian Government attempting to make the tech giant pay for original news content.
The move by Google came as a Senate committee is reviewing legislation that would force Google and Facebook to negotiate with Australian news media companies for a fair price for displaying local news content.
In early December 2020, the Australian Government tabled legislation that will force Google and Facebook to pay news organisations for access to their journalism.
Experts on media regulation say though Google was trying to downplay the significance of the move, it was clearly “throwing its weight around”.
No Comments A union called the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) has been formed with more than 400 Google engineers and other workers as its members
AWU says that despite few successes through organised efforts, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation persists at Google.
“That isn’t the company we want to work for. We deserve a workplace that respects us, where we can work for a fair wage without fear of abuse or discrimination”, says AMU
The AMU members say that this is primarily an effort to give structure and longevity to activism at Google, rather than to negotiate for a contract.
No Comments On Nov 17th, a Senate hearing was held over legal protections for Social Media companies. CEOs of Twitter and Facebook were put to scrutiny by senators during the hearing. The Republican senators accused the social media companies of political bias and also charged them with unfair business practices and market dominance. The charges are seen […]
