facebook叫板政府，让我出钱？那我就禁了你的新闻口

　　sky news报道：为什么facebook要禁止澳大利亚用户查看、分享新闻？——
　　What has happened and why?
　　Australians woke up on Thursday to discover they could not access news on their Facebook accounts and people around the world could not post or share links from Australian publications.
　　Commercial and government communication pages, community support groups, charities and news from emergency services were also inaccessible.
　　The US-based social media giant made the move after the Australian House of Representatives approved a law to compel  internet companies to pay news organisations.
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　　compel v.强迫；迫使
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　　文 发生了什么？为什么？
　　周四一早，澳大利亚人起床发现自己竟然没法通过Facebook账号看新闻了，其他国家地区的人也没法发布或是分享澳大利亚出版内容的链接。
　　商业和政府的公共页面、社区团体、慈善团体、紧急事务新闻动态也都无法访问。
　　在澳大利亚众议院通过一项强制要求互联网公司向新闻机构支付费用的法律后，随后这家美国的社交媒体大亨便采取了此举。
　　Facebook said the law, which needs to be passed by the Senate, ＂fundamentally misunderstands the relationship between our platform and publishers who use it＂.
　　Powerful tech companies fear the law could set an expensive precedent  for other countries as governments try to catch up with the fast-changing digital world.
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　　precedent n.先例
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　　文 Facebook称此条法律（还需参议员通过）＂从根本上误解了我们平台和使用平台的出版商之间的关系＂。
　　科技巨头们担心这项法律会为其他国家开下代价高昂的先河，导致各国政府为了跟上瞬息万变的数字世界而效仿。
　　Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison used his Facebook page to react, saying: ＂Facebook＂s actions to unfriend Australia today, cutting off essential information services on health and emergency services, were as arrogant as they were disappointing.＂
　　Facebook accounts for 23% of Australian online advertising revenue while Google accounts for 53%, according to the government＂s treasurer, Josh Frydenberg.
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　　文 澳大利亚总理斯科特·莫里森（Scott Morrison）通过Facebook页面作出回应：＂今日，Facebook与澳大利亚取消好友关系，切断了医疗健康和紧急服务的基本信息服务，这种做法既傲慢且让人失望。＂
　　据国库部长乔什·弗莱登伯格称，Facebook占澳大利亚线上广告收入的23%，Google占53%。
　　Why is Australia trying to get internet companies to pay news organisations?
　　For two decades, global news outlets have complained internet companies are getting rich at their expense by selling advertising linked to their reports without sharing revenue.
　　The Australian government wants to redress  that balance in the hope more money can go to a news industry that is seeing revenue shrink and, in some cases, being forced to cut coverage.
　　Canberra＂s competition regulator tried to negotiate a voluntary payment plan with Google but this failed.
　　The new proposal was then brought forward which would create a committee to make binding decisions on the price of news reports to help give publishers more negotiating leverage with the internet giants.
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　　redress v.纠正; 补救；使恢复 (平衡)；赔款; 赔偿
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　　文 为什么澳大利亚试图让互联网公司向新闻机构支付费用？
　　过去二十年来，全球通讯社都颇有微词，互联网公司在新闻报道界面出售广告位又不与通讯社分成，互联网公司也因此越来越富有。
　　澳大利亚政府想恢复平衡，希望有更多资金流入收入缩水，某些情况下甚至被迫减少报道的新闻行业。
　　堪培拉的竞争监管机构试图与Google协商一项自愿支付方案，但未能成功。
　　随后提出新的提案，提议设立一个委员会来对新闻报道的价格作出约束性规定，以期帮助出版商在与互联网巨头谈判时拥有更多筹码。
　　Has Google agreed to the plan?
　　The internet tech giant had threatened to retaliate but announced deals in Australia with Rupert Murdoch＂s News Corp and Seven West Media, while the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Nine Entertainment are in negotiations.
　　No financial details were released but this means news companies now have a new revenue stream.
　　News Corp said it would receive ＂significant payments＂ from Google under a three-year agreement which also covers its non-Australian publications such as the New York Post, and the Times and the Sun in the UK.
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　　文 Google同意这项方案吗？
　　Google这家互联网巨头威胁称要实施报复，但宣布了与鲁伯特·默多克（Rupert Murdoch）新闻集团以及七西传媒的合作协议，同时澳大利亚广播公司和九号娱乐公司正在谈判中。
　　虽然没有公布财务细节，但是这意味着这些新闻公司有了新的收入来源。
　　新闻集团称，根据一份为期三年的协议，它将从Google收入一笔＂可观报酬＂，这项协议还涵盖其非澳大利亚出版物，如《纽约邮报》以及英国的《泰晤士报》、《太阳报》等。
　　前有谷歌，后有脸书。
　　真是让人不由得纳闷，社交媒体权力已经这么大了吗？不仅赚得盆满钵盈，还能直接叫板政府。