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JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 10:58 PM3 repliesview on HN

Is there a plan to start fining the social media companies themselves? Or raise their liability thresholds?

This is sort of like the illegal-immigration debate. If you’re serious about fixing it, go after employers. Same for underage social media users. If you want to actually solve it, you have to penalize the platforms.


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ian_holtyesterday at 11:17 PM

<s there a plan to start fining the social media companies themselves? Or raise their liability thresholds?>

they will apparently be fined around AUD$50M if they fail to do due diligence (not sure how the legislation phrases. I am not sure if any social media company has at this stage. Unfortunately we have a dictator as a so-called e-safety commissioner backed up by an equally useless PM who seem to think all parents are unable to monitor themselves or their kids online behaviour

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