As per Communications Minister, The Albanese government will develop and legislate a “Digital Duty of Care” to place the onus on platforms to keep people safe and better prevent online harms.
To date, the Online Safety Act has been a crucial tool for incentivizing digital platforms to remove illegal content, usually applied remedially and case by case. However, it does not, in a fundamental sense, incentivize the design of a safer, healthier, digital platforms ecosystem, the authorities said.