Australia targets tech giants with levy unless they pay for local news

Funny how governments get tough on tech, but tiptoe around gas and oil. Platforms get hit with a levy for linking news, while resource companies extract billions and still manage to minimise tax through perfectly legal loopholes. If this was really about fairness or public revenue, they’d start with the industries taking the most value out of the country — not the ones that are just easier to regulate. Of course tech should pay as well. 

So they'll predict their mates in the media industry but aren't going to do jack about all the artists, writers or programmers having their work sucked up into AI training data sets to be sold back to us? Great. Thanks Albo.

We pay international prices for our own gas. Japan gets our gas for cheaper.