Google Escalates Dispute With Australia by Threatening Search Shutdown
Fight is over a proposed law requiring tech giants to pay publishers for news; ‘we don’t respond to threats,’ prime minister says
The Google logo in Brussels. Google threatened yesterday to block Australian users from accessing its search service.
Google threatened to shut down its search engine in Australia if a proposed law requiring tech giants to pay publishers for news isn’t changed.
The warning escalates the long-running battle pitting the Alphabet Inc. unit and Facebook Inc. against the Australian government, whose efforts to compel tech companies to pay publishers is being widely watched globally and could offer a model for other countries. Last year, Facebook said it would…
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