Grattan on Friday: Social media companies can’t be immune from the need for a social licence
It’s that so many people are increasingly alarmed about the harm social media is doing.
- It’s that so many people are increasingly alarmed about the harm social media is doing.
- Some parents despair about how addiction to social media can capture their children as strongly as addiction to hard drugs.
- The other is that the very nature of social media allows that extremist poison to spray across the globe almost instantaneously.
- Social media companies are refusing to snuff out the social combustion on their platforms.
- Coleman says the eSafety Commissioner recommended a trial of “age assurance” technology, which could include social media in its scope.
- The government hopes the fuelling of concern about social media by recent events will help muster support for whatever new version of this legislation it produces.
- It involves core free speech issues, and the balance of risks is different from the harms caused by the worst aspects of social media.
Michelle Grattan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.