Australia must adopt a more hardline approach to regulating Big Tech if it is to maximise the full economic benefit of technology, according to shadow minister for government services and the digital economy Paul Fletcher.
Mr Fletcher made the case for greater regulation on Sunday to address the growing market power of companies like Meta, Google and Apple, criticising the Albanese government for its lack of urgency to date.
It comes just days after Google was found to have abused its market power to quash internet search competition in the United States, and Europe’s new Digital Market Act comes into effect.
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