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The answer to both is 'it depends on what The Australian Government says'. The law will apply to platforms at the discretion of the Minister - it's why we are t
by docdeek 6y ago
The answer to both is 'it depends on what The Australian Government says'. The law will apply to platforms at the discretion of the Minister - it's why we are talking Facebook and Google and not Twitter and iMessage.
- pca006132 6y agoSo they can target whoever they want and charge them? Sounds a lot more alarming...
- stephen_g 6y agoYep, it’s super arbitrary. Super bad legislation and introduces huge sovereign risk. There will be companies who choose not to do business here or not to do business with our companies when the Government has shown they’ll happily target random successful foreign companies to be extorted by local failing industries... And this is just one in a whole string of bad tech legislation (like the one that the Government can force you to secretly break your app’s encryption for any users they want to surveil, without them requiring a warrant!)
- docdeek 6y agoThe text of the (soon to be) law is online [1] and at Division 2.52E it states the Minister alone decides which digital platforms it applies to. Today is it Facebook and Google (though likely not Google after some recent moves by that company) but it could be any digital platform should the Minister designate it as covered by the law in the future. 1: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;db=LEGISLATION;id=legislation%2Fbills%2Fr6652_first-reps%2F0001;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Fbills%2Fr6652_first-reps%2F0000%22;rec=0 https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display....