Sarah Hanson-Young is leading the Greens’ negotiations with the government over legislation designed to hold tech companies responsible for preventing harm to Australians, in particular children. The legislation is expected to be tabled in parliament this week.
Hanson-Young, the Greens’ manager of business in the Senate, said the party would wait to see the details of the legislation before deciding whether to support it. But the senator said the Greens supported the imperative, telling the ABC’s 7:30 program that big tech companies had been “running amok for far too long and we want laws that will actually hold them to account”.
double quotation markPutting in place a duty of care on these big tech platforms is something that’s well and truly overdue.
And these big tech companies, social media platforms have been getting away with profiting off content that has been harmful, of technologies that have been designed to be deliberately addictive, even though they know the harm that that can do.
And they’ve just been laughing all the way to the bank. We need proper regulations on these tech companies.
