Australia has become a test case for addressing the market dominance of big tech, one closely watched by Canada and the world
Rod Sims, the serious and sometimes feisty head of Australia’s competition and consumer authority, takes a liking to a comparison offered up to describe the battle playing out in his country between news publishers and big tech platforms controlled by Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc.
News is like toothpaste: Consumers want and need it and would clearly suffer if the dominant distributors squeezed suppliers so much that it could no longer be made.
