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Honest Government Ad
The Juice Media
Hello I’m from the Australien Government with a message from our Prime Minister In the digital age, our favourite media monopoly is suffering It now has to compete for ad dollars with tech platforms As firm believers in the free market, we can’t let the market get away with this So we’ve come up with a way to tilt it back in favour of this giant fucking tumour Introducing, the News Corp Bargaining Code Because we can all agree that Facebook is the problem it’s become too powerful, pays fuck-all taxes, promotes fake news and then it tried to bully us… your Government! We can’t let such power fall into the hands of this billionaire That power needs to stay in the hands of this billionaire who’se become too powerful pays fuck-all taxes, promotes fake news, and bullies your Government News Corp Bargaining Code The News Corp Bargaining Code recognises that traditional media is struggling As advertisers shift to Facebook and Google, thousands of journalism jobs have vanished many of them in regional areas Sure, we could fix this by taxing tech giants and investing the revenue into quality journalism But then we’d have to close tax loopholes, and we can’t do that to our friends Plus, it means we’d end up with quality journalism, and fucked if we want more of that So instead, we came up with a law to make Facebook & Google prop up mega news corporations by making them pay for news content linked to their platforms Will that help our ailing media? IDK The Code doesn’t ensure the revenue will go to journos instead of shareholders And we don’t really give a shit The only reason we’re doing this is to keep our propaganda department in business News Corp Bargaining Code The best part of the Code is that instead of trying to fix what people don’t like about Big Tech it encourages traditional media to get in on the action That’s why, rather than introducing stronger privacy laws to prevent your data being mined by these guys, the Code lets these guys mine some of that data too It also gives them access to changes to the algorithm Which means our friends will have inside knowledge that lets them optimise their content for clicks and ad revenue And we all know that’s what the world needs: more corporate clickbait bullshit In short, the Code aligns the interests of Big Media and Big Tech thereby ensuring that they have a shared interest in destroying human civilisation for profit News Corp Bargaining Code Of course, not all media will benefit from the Code smaller publishers and independent journalists and YouTubers, won’t have access to those perks making it harder for them to compete and survive Which is great for us here at the Australien Government seeing as many of those smaller publishers, independent journalists and YouTubers just so happen to have become very good at exposing the shitfuckery of THE LIBERAL GOVERNMENT News Corp Bargaining Code So as you can see, it’s a win-win Big Media gets propped up Big Tech avoids being broken up And Big Cunts get re-elected coz we’ll have silenced our critics The loser, as always, is you Authorised by THE LIBERAL GOVERNMENT