[wlug] “When Elephants Fight, The Grass Gets Trampled”

When big news organizations tussle with big Web search engines and social media outfits over who is stealing revenue from whom, how do you decide who is right and who is wrong? The Aussie Government is trying to protect one lot of multinational companies from the encroachments of another lot; where does fair competition end and protectionism or exploitation begin? <https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/google-threatens-to-ban-search-button-in-australia/YICEDQSS5O5VTL2UWQY2JOIINI/> (By the way, in that old African proverb, the “grass” is the ordinary people who are the inevitable victims in any conflict between major powers.)