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I think the issue with subscription like model is that it places even more bargaining power in the hands of the Big Tech platforms. Twitter dictates how much revenue gets shared, dictates any other terms and conditions with journalists and all the while still get to maintain that they are helping the news/journalism industry. Seems to me like it would be more a workaround rather than compliance with the legislation and considering the extent of the crack down on Big Tech, I'm not sure governments would let this one go very easily. Completely agree that the Australian legislation fails smaller news outlets though. Not to be cynical but even with the bigger news groups, no telling how much of the additional revenue will actually go into producing more independent journalism and hiring more journalists vs just padding shareholder/executive pockets.
I think the issue with subscription like model is that it places even more bargaining power in the hands of the Big Tech platforms. Twitter dictates how much revenue gets shared, dictates any other terms and conditions with journalists and all the while still get to maintain that they are helping the news/journalism industry. Seems to me like it would be more a workaround rather than compliance with the legislation and considering the extent of the crack down on Big Tech, I'm not sure governments would let this one go very easily.
Completely agree that the Australian legislation fails smaller news outlets though. Not to be cynical but even with the bigger news groups, no telling how much of the additional revenue will actually go into producing more independent journalism and hiring more journalists vs just padding shareholder/executive pockets.
