Meanwhile - Big Brother is going after other news organizations:
https://dailydeclaration.org.au/2024/12/06/misinformation-bill-returns/The Misinformation Bill Returns Under Another Guise
6 December 2024
ANALYSIS
2.1 MINS
by Chris Baxter
On 24 November, Parliament abandoned the Misinformation Bill.
Just one day later, teal independent MP Zoe Daniel re-introduced it under a different name.
We were talking last week, and almost no-one has picked it up.
Here is an initial brief analysis of the Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care Bill) 2024 and its implications. Clause references have been included throughout.
Massive Fines
The Act creates punitive fines for large social media platforms (5B) when they fail to meet a significant new set of obligations (Part 2A, Div1). Of course the Act only applies to those platforms the Minister chooses 5B(b). The obligations don’t just include: duty of care, key personnel, risk assessment, risk mitigation, transparency, privacy and control obligations but “reasonable steps” in relation to all of the above.
Breaches of a Misinformation Standard attract a preposterous fine of 5% of annual global turnover. Breaches of this Act are at 10% of annual turnover. (s28A)