"What do you want to make? Not, what should I be making?"

Comment from Peter Saxon. 

The Australian commercial radio industry strongly supports the proposed News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code.  
 

Google has responded to the proposed draft mandatory code released by the ACCC.

The code would allow Australian media to bargain with Google and Facebook to quickly secure fair payment for news content

Managing Director, Mel Silva, on behalf of Google Australia published the following open letter.
 

 CRA says the release of the ACCC draft mandatory code of conduct to govern agreements between tech giants and Australian media companies is “an important step forward”.

Commercial Radio Australia says a collective licensing-fee arrangement would provide the best framework to enable commercial radio broadcasters to share in the ad revenue that Google and Facebook generate from radio-created content.
 

Steve Ahern analyses Facebook’s new priorities.
 
 
At Facebook’s F8 developer conference last week Mark Zuckerberg outlined a range of new directions for the global social media platform.
 
“I know that we don't exactly have the strongest reputation on privacy right now,” Zuckerberg told the developer audience assembled to hear about the social media company’s priorities for 2019.
 

While researching another article about Facebook, I was prompted to click on some brazen scam ads featuring Aussie radio and tv personalities.
 
I had been seeing similar ads for a while but had ignored them, however, to test whether Facebook was serious about its new approach to scams and privacy I clinked through on a few of them to find out where they went.
 

'Facebook's claims don't withstand close scrutiny.'