US President Donald Trump’s advisors have been briefed and greenlighted Labor’s teethy return growl at big tech – Meta particularly – in the ongoing cat and mouse game of sustainable funding of local news content and journalism. But more platforms look set to be captured by the proposed new laws – LinkedIn the most likely – which are set for retrospective enactment in three weeks – January 1, once they’re passed. But there’s a catch. Pending election timing and the Coalition’s position, it may require a Labor win before the louder bark turns to a real regulatory bite. And there are already fast-forming views that the beefed-up policy to restrain the posse of global tech platforms won’t get through before the next election cycle.