A Labor-led parliamentary committee has urged the federal government to appoint a Digital Affairs minister to coordinate the regulation of social media and other digital platforms, including across privacy, competition and online safety.
The call to adopt a similar approach to that of Taiwan comes as the remit of existing existing regulatory agencies like the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) increasingly overlap.
The Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society also called for a review the industry co-regulation model for digital platforms, the adoption of transparency measures in the European Union’s Digital Services Act, and to consider a digital platform levy to fund public interest journalism.
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