Anyone need more bad news? MediaWatch this week is full of it.
For a start, there's the govt cancelling a focused tax on international online services making money from Aotearoa. A sensible policy I hadn't even heard was on the cards. While continuing with a link tax on currently dominant platforms - an unprincipled, short-term policy that has mostly failed in Oz, Canada and elsewhere - and the online age verification farce;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=3b55abf5-5b70-408a-8d70-c7d1514d875d
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