Australia is pushing big tech to ‘protect kids from porn’. What can they actually do?

  • Written by: Toby Murray, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has announced she’s given the major tech platforms six months to develop enforceable codes for protecting children from online pornography and other “high-impact” content like self harm.

This follows recent announcements that the federal government is trialling...

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