Scandal of Australia & Facebook Crisis

The mutual escalation taken place between Australia and Facebook due to the=
 reciprocal blackmail event between them reveled the ugly face of Social Me=
dia Companies and much ugly face for the Australian government should be co=
nsidered a lot before being aggravated globally; particularly the two parti=
es are ruffians. Each of them gets his strength from his international part=
ies and his financial and political camps.=20
The US Facebook Company caused a global tumult with its decision banning al=
l news=E2=80=99 content from Australia suffering from severe violations for=
 the human rights on both the internal and external levels.=20
The US CNN Network divulged the two parties although one of them is a blind=
 allay for The United States and the other is a large US Company. It report=
ed that it was the first time for Facebook to determine to enter into a dir=
ect political conflict with governments, which in turn may demonstrate its =
power and strong influence on political decision making in the world; parti=
cularly Australia has a lot of Points of weakness due to its crimes committ=
ed against the aboriginal population in addition to war crimes committed in=
 the places where its forces and troops are existed including Afghanistan.=
=20
The Australian got up in a morning while they were unable to browse any new=
s on their accounts on the Facebook in a clear escalation from the part of =
the US Company against the Australian Government. Due to the conflict exist=
ing between them as the latter refused to pay a consideration for the conte=
nt. Such matter, in turn, demonstrates the big haughtiness of the two parti=
es.      =20
The measure taken by Facebook came after the lapse of few hours from the co=
nsent of Google on the payment made by News Corp Private Company belonging =
to Robert Mardoukh a consideration of the content taken from news websites =
about its media empire.=20
The equivocal and unfair Australian Law obligates Facebook and Google to re=
ach trading agreements with news websites or being subjected to the compuls=
ory arbitration to agree on the financial consideration for the news conten=
t.=20
In a statement delivered by Facebook, Facebook stated that the law expected=
 to be adopted by the Parliament within days misunderstand a lot the relati=
onship between it and the publishers. It added that it faced a difficult ch=
oice between compliance or banning the news content.=20
The owner and founder of Facebook Mr. Mark Zuckerberg tried in a pervious t=
ime to convince the haughty Australian Government to draw back the new cont=
ent claimed to be launched.
However, Republic World Journal stated that The Australian Treasury Ministe=
r \ Josh Frydenberg failed to convince Zuckerberg with the necessity to dra=
w back the law.=20
The meeting held between the Zuckerberg and the Australian Minister did not=
 solve the dispute existing between them regarding the proposed changes of =
the laws of Mass Media.=20
The step taken by Facebook was faced with an aggressive attack and assault =
by Australian prime Minister \ Scott Morrison who said that his country sha=
ll not subject to such blackmail. He added: (the acts done by Facebook with=
 cancelling the friendship of Australia and disconnecting the basic informa=
tion services related to health and emergency services was a haughtiness fr=
om its part besides being disappointing.)
In a state of haughtiness, Australian Prime Minister threatened by making s=
uch case as an international case and arousing the World Public Opinion aga=
inst Facebook by saying: (I am on a regular contact with the leaders of the=
 other countries regarding such cases. We shall not simply fear.)=20
There are 17 Million Australians logging into Facebook website daily. There=
fore, such decision taken by Facebook is considered largely influential upo=
n them. The Australian government cannot do anything for them except threat=
ening Facebook.=20
The comments given by the rest of Australian Politicians were much aggressi=
ve and extremist since Prime Minister of Western Australia \ Mark McGowan s=
aid that: Facebook is considered with such act like the Dictator of North K=
orea).=20
Manager of Human Rights Watch Organization in Australia \ Ellen Pearson als=
o said: (Disconnecting the reach of the vital information from a whole coun=
try at the still of the night from a whole country is considered an unaccep=
table and unreasonable matter). The strangest thing is that no sound or opi=
nion is heard for such international human rights organization regarding th=
e internally and externally known human rights violations committed by Sydn=
ey).