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Google is threatening to duck out of Australia.


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Google on Friday threatened to remove its search engine from Australia as the country attempts to make into law a code that would force tech companies to share royalties with news publishers.

Australia is aiming to pass the law to help finance its struggling publishing industry, which is suffering due to a decline in advertising revenue. Lawmakers argue that tech giants such as Google and Facebook profit off people using their platforms to find news and that the companies should compensate newsrooms…

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