What I don't get is why must Google Search completely shut down to fight this law. Can't they just stop crawling news sites that complain about revenue sharing?
There’s the restrictions on serving any news that others have mentioned, but the proposed code also requires them to advise the media organizations of any change to their algorithm that could affect the media companies at least 14 days in advance of that change. For a company that doesn’t give anyone a heads-up about changes coming, let almone specifics of the change and how it might affect their property, that’s enormous.
They could go down that path. But the law prohibits linking to news in general, including international news that is unrelated to Australia. It is vague enough to likely include blog content as "news". Should Google accidentally link to something that is considered news, then that opens them up to serious fines.
It would require an incredibly intelligent algorithm to filter all of that kind of content out.
