Facebook To Restart All Its Services in Australia and Comply with the Laws

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The Facebook and Australian government row had been going on for quite some time now. Finally, after tons of meetings and deliberations, Facebook is all-set to restart all of its services and pay the news agencies of Australia, thereby complying to the new laws of the Australian government.

A revised agreement has been made with the Australian government by the authorities of Facebook. The journalism content sharing was the main problem that was encountered as even the big tech giants like Facebook and Google were asked to pay the news agencies for publishing their content on either the apps or the website.

There was a sever backlash and Facebook had banned its services for Australia but the clash has now been resolved and the Australian users can once again use the social media giant.

To make this announcement official, the Facebook CEO Mark Zukerberg and the Austrlian government treasurer Josh Frydenberg had written that Facebook has re-friended Australia. All news articles and other related information will once again be shared amongst the people using Facebook, thereby restoring all the services offered by the platform.

This new law of the Australian government of having to pay the news agencies is a first for the world. Nowhere else in the world are you required to pay for publishing the content. This new law is being called the code and is yet to be passed in Parliament.

New agreements have been drawn up with the news agencies to pay for the content accurately. Individual commercial deals will also be signed time and again to ensure that everything happens according to the legal standards.

The government and Facebook have basically come to a bargain that benefits both the parties and the people of Australia. A similar problem is being encountered with the search engine Google but it is being expected that Google too shall follow this bargain and come to an agreement with the Australian government.

Facebook in a statement said that it was pleased to have reached an amicable agreement with the government.