“Australia’s e-safety commissioner is the last thing on [Elon Musk’s] mind,” says Dr Belinda Barnet, a senior lecturer in media at Swinburne University.
X, the platform owned by Musk, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday became the first online platform to be fined under Australia’s Online Safety Act, receiving a $610,500 penalty after failing to answer questions about how it was tackling child sexual abuse material.
But experts say the fine is unlikely to force X to improve its procedures, indicating better legislation is needed to elicit change.
The infringement notice was issued after a marathon seven-month back-and-forth between X and the e-safety commissioner’s office, after which X failed to respond to
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