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Q+A: Feb 18

Guests: Paul Fletcher, Michelle Rowland, Hal Crawford.

This Thursday on Q+A is “Bargaining with Big Tech: The new Media Code.”

Can you survive without Google? Could you last a day without news in your Facebook feed?

The tech giants have threatened to pull their services from Australia if the Government goes ahead with new laws forcing them to pay media outlets for their news content.

Should governments reign in the might of the tech sector? Will the proposed Media Code support traditional news media outlets? Has the spread of conspiracies and online extremism corrupted our democracies and how much is big tech to blame?

The Trump impeachment process has revealed the deadly intent of the insurrectionists who stormed Capitol Hill. How much did they organise online and will the Trump Twitter ban be effective?

Joining Hamish on the panel:

Paul Fletcher, Communications Minister
Michelle Rowland, Shadow Minister for Communications
Julie Inman Grant, Former tech industry insider and eSafety Commissioner
Lydia Khalil, International security expert
Hal Crawford, Media consultant and former news director

8:30pm Thursday on ABC.

One Response

  1. Question I’d ask is why Frydenberg seems to always be spokesperson on this topic… the so called media/comms minister is weak as water and most people wouldn’t even know he is

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