let's talk to our guest, peter lewis, director of the australia institute for responsible technology and he joins us from sydney. what do you make of all of this? peter lewis this is a monopoly trying to scare down a democratic global government. and this is to address the monopoly power of google and facebook and advertising, and one of those pieces of legislation passed are lower house on the tuesday night and by the wednesday morning, facebook pulled out the big guns. rishaad: absolutely. facebook's response to that legislation has been heavy-handed. how is this going to affect people who are using facebook ultimately, and what needs to be done to get through what is a minefield? peter lewis the initial move by facebook to take down what they said were news sites actually covered public health information, information about domestic violence and a whole bunch of civil society pages. they are in the process of restoring some, but not all of those. we will be left with a facebook in australia where people are prohibited from accessing public interest either local or international while facebook continues to be