There's still some power in the dinosaurs. This also indicates to me that this kind of thing has been going on for decades, and it's just the advent of the Internet (somewhat ironically) that's allowed for this kind of information to leak out to a larger percentage of the population (but not a large enough percentage to affect the election result, as it turns out).
Google has world class influence in multiple fields:
* Search engine
* Email
* Operating systems (through Android)
* Web hosting (Google cloud)
They also made a serious play into social organisation with Google+.
Murduch controls a broadcast business which tells people what to think using mass media. I don't like that.
But Google is more threatening, and its strategy is more threatening, no matter what you want to argue News Media has done. Murdoch isn't reading my work emails, doesn't control infrastructure my company relies on, doesn't track the physical location of my friends and associates. Google does. Google's potential for political activism is more scary.
News Corp's actions have paved the way for the paranoia about Google / Big Tech because they've actually used their potential. News Corp are verifiably evil.
This legislation, however, does nothing to slow Google's potential in any of the examples you mentioned.
(I think, fundamentally, we agree that both are bad)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/19/turnb...
There's still some power in the dinosaurs. This also indicates to me that this kind of thing has been going on for decades, and it's just the advent of the Internet (somewhat ironically) that's allowed for this kind of information to leak out to a larger percentage of the population (but not a large enough percentage to affect the election result, as it turns out).