An independent review of Australia’s online safety laws has flagged a new way to disrupt the revenue of social media companies like X as part of changes that would hand more powers and a wider scope to the regulator.
One potential change to the Online Safety Act would allow the eSafety Commissioner to force private firms to stop advertising with a company like X as a last resort punishment for a foreign platform if it refuses to comply with other orders.
It has been put forward just as the Elon Musk-owned platform defied the regulator’s orders to remove footage of an alleged Sydney stabbing from X.
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