Duopoly

I don't know how I missed this but the ACCC's recommendations two weeks ago into Digital Platforms ( read: "the Google and Facebook domination") are really good news. 

...we are at a critical point in considering the impact of digital platforms on society. While the ACCC recognises their significant benefits to consumers and businesses, there are important questions to be asked about the role the global digital platforms play in the supply of news and journalism in Australia, what responsibility they should hold as gateways to information and business, and the extent to which they should be accountable for their influence.

I find it hard to believe that such a careful set of recommendations for the long-term benefit was sponsored by the current shambolic Australian Government that seems to have the attention span of a gnat.

Unfortunately, at 370 pages, the preliminary report does not lend itself to a quick summary but the 18 page "Executive Summary" is all you really need to read.  

Of that Summary, the most important section is of the 11 recommendations which, according to the better informed and thoughtful press, are gaining a lot of traction in the English-speaking world as the basis for a coordinated governmental approach.  

Full report will be out in the middle of next year which gives plenty of time for other Governments and both Google and Facebook, to make comment.

Bloody socialists!