Francesca Rudkin: Why is the Government dragging its feet on regulating big tech?
Yesterday, an article with Stuff owner and CEO Sinead Boucher was released on their website.
It was a wide ranging interview that included discussion about the significant impact big tech companies such as Google, Meta, and TikTok are having on traditional, New Zealand owned media companies.
These platforms attract the vast majority of New Zealand’s digital advertising spend, but due to a lack of regulation they avoid paying a meaningful tax bill in New Zealand. This is galling for local media companies who invest in journalism and content, only to watch big tech scrape, crawl and extract…
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