A new proposal to force social media platforms to pay for their use of news has been criticised by Meta, Google and ByteDance, while Australian media welcomed the changes And so what that means is it takes away one of the big levers that the tech companies had, which was to simply refuse to post news content on social media," she told SBS News.This could make another news ban unlikely, even though tech companies would likely "squirm" to get out of paying money, she said.The new proposal would incentivise big tech companies to make "relationships or deals" with news organisations, she added.Other commentators have argued that Meta could react the same way it did in 2021, and ban news, given news urls only form around 1 per cent of content shared on its platforms.Given said she thought it was an "innovative approach", which she hoped would help tech companies realise it was in the public's best interests."We're certainly seeing several lawsuits and issues being raised around the world about the use of news content by these companies