[icedchocolate]

As an Australian, this is fantastic. Why should Facebook and Google get to show news content for free? The only people unhappy about this, from what I have seen, are Facebook and Google. Big tech bullies, having a sook with their lobbyists and website warnings. Good riddance.

[dmix]

This law won't live past a year, it's already failed. If it does it's only going to create fewer independent news sources in Australia.

So your hopes of this somehow punishing Google/FB and benefiting the people of AUS long term is probably very misguided.

Google/FB don't care about a subset of a percentage of it's traffic from a small western country.

Twitter and Reddit don't provide any less biased discourse either. And I'm not sure people are simply going to go back to visiting the homepages directly - at least enough to replace the traffic.