Google Threatens to Remove Search as Australian Row Deepens
- Australian law proposes Google, Facebook must pay for news
- Threat takes standoff with the government to a new level
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Google threatened to disable its search engine in Australia if it’s forced to pay local publishers for news, a dramatic escalation of a months-long standoff with the government.