The rest is merely a diversion.
Foxy,
The media ownership is a topic to divert from the failings & corruption of the Left !

The highly censorious Hard Left overlooks the obvious - they have Big Tech on their side. Google, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube censor and block right-wingers over FACTUAL assertions.

Along with MSM, Big Tech has almost certainly kicked Trump out. In 2019 alone, YouTube removed 300 Trump advertisements.

Google removes the ability to search for files that it doesn't approve of. Its Lefty employees are always pressuring for conservative sites to be blacklisted.

There is no publisher more powerful than Wikipedia, which exists to offend the right.

Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter are all leftist-owned.

Leftist politicians use Big Tech to bypass debate, public review, judicial review and other checks and balances that are there to ensure that politicians in a democracy cannot simply impose their policies.

Big corporations are in on the act, too. Politicians turn to them to do their bidding - in the same way the Chinese Communist Party uses its corporations.

As of February 2020, Google owns 92% of the search engine market, 63% of the internet browser market, and 75% of the smartphone operating system.

Don't listen to the Hard Left pontificating about a Murdoch monopoly.

I agree, there are plenty of left wing media sources out there.

I hardly support the Murdoch-owned press, but respect its right to exist.

It is indeed a dangerous path when some wish others did not exist, simply because they don't share their policy views.

If you support liberal democracy and liberalism, you have to take the good with the bad, depending on your perspective.

anything else is simply control, more in tune with an authoritarian society.

Dear Josephus,

And you mate are nicked in the head.

Secret communist? Where on the earth do you pull this kind of utter nonsense from? What echo chambers do you skip through with gay abandon?

How is Rudd a communist when all he is doing is seeking media diversity?

And it isn't a matter of a different point of view at all. It is about the lies and half truths which our unaccountable media gets away with now. It is a dog's breakfast of an NBN because Murdoch wanted to protect his cable business, it is his far right commentators sewing discontent and anti-intellectualism, it is the gullible minions like yourself who consume this garbage.

when all he is doing is seeking media diversity?
SteelerRedux,
Come off it kid, the Dud's never got over being ousted because of incompetence. On top of that his egotism is through the roof ! He's been educated beyond his ability to comprehend & what we saw & got is the proof of that !
At least Gillard has the sense to stay quiet.

This petition has bugger all to do with media ownership and 100% to do with silencing dissent.

Firstly, Newscorp owns a minority of the newspapers, and for every Newscorp paper in an area, there is at least one or more papers from left whinge mastheads, the problem is that readers prefer Newscorp paper to others by 2 to 1 or greater.

That the ABC has far greater reach, is dominated by the left and is paid for with taxes is far more of a travesty.