‘We remain committed to a workable code’: Google responds to senators’ endorsement of bill
Google is determined to ensure lawmakers do not enact the News Media Bargaining Code in its current form, despite the senate economics legislation committee’s endorsement of the bill on Friday afternoon.
“As we’ve said since the draft was released in July last year, we remain committed to a workable code–-the concerns that we, and others, have been raising consistently are about specific aspects of the code,” said Google’s local director of government affairs and public policy, Lucinda Longcroft, in response to the senate committee’s report, which came after two days of hearings at which both the digital platforms and publishers presented.
