Murdoch Seeks Takeover of Australia’s Online Market

To some reporters, Australia’s demand that Google and Facebook “pay” for links to local papers seems like a revolution.

It’s not. It’s embezzlement. The embezzler isn’t even the Australian government. They only work for the embezzler.

The embezzler is Rupert Murdoch.

Murdoch’s News Corp. has 52% of Australia’s news market, and more than 20% of the electronic news marketplace. The Murdoch press there is, if anything, even more propagandistic than it is here. That’s why Australia has the worst climate policy of any nation in the world.

That’s the “hero” that’s going to “spank big tech” and “save the news business.”