‘Chairman Mao Would Have Approved’: Critics Liken Big Tech to CCP

A bouquet of flowers lay upon the company logo as a man photographs a commentary placed beneath a rock outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing on January 14, 2010. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images

Critics of Google and Facebook have compared the tech giants’ recent actions to the behaviour of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as the long-running dispute over an Australian media payment law continues.

Last month, Google Australia floated the idea of pulling its search service from the country, sparking a hostile response from Independent Senator Rex Patrick, who likened the tech giant’s threat to Beijing’s ongoing trade war with Australia.