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US antitrust move to follow ACCC

Just weeks before the Australian government publicly releases the final report from the ACCC’s landmark tech platforms inquiry, the US government has opened its own review of the market...

New social media laws “pointless”

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The government’s new social media laws it plans to rush through Parliament this week are “heavy-handed and pointless”, according to former government digital lead Paul Shetler. The federal government...

Microsoft acts on extremist content

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Microsoft has called for the tech sector to put aside rivalries and work together to better moderate and remove extremist content in the wake of the Christchurch terror attack....

Simson fears for small biz marketers

Posted on   |  by Seamus Byrne
Something needs to be done about the concentration of digital advertising around Facebook and Google, with both regularly changing the rules so there is little consistency or clarity, according...

Self-regulation has been a disaster

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The only way to mitigate the consistent and persistent “negative externalities” of Facebook and other social media platforms is through government intervention. Self-regulation has been a disaster for the...

Tech giants reject ACCC report

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Tech giants Google and Facebook have unsurprisingly rejected the Australian competition watchdog’s proposed “algorithm regulator”, the key recommendation from its “world-first” inquiry into digital platforms. The two companies, which...

Sims tackles media vs tech giants

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The production of journalism is too important to be left “entirely to market forces”, and the government may be required to intervene to curb the powers of tech giants...

ACCC sets target: Google, Facebook

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A powerful new regulatory body would be established to oversee tech giants like Google and Facebook as part of far-reaching reforms recommended by Australia’s competition watchdog to curtail the...

Alliance to oppose encryption bill

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
An array of civil and digital rights organisations have joined forces with corporate giants in a global alliance to oppose the federal government’s controversial encryption bill. The Alliance for...

Facebook’s long march to China

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Facebook has been bending over every which way to somehow get back into China after the country’s so-called Great Firewall was significantly jacked up in July 2009, blocking western...