Australian Greens' Additional Comments

1.1The Greens welcome the committee’s recommendations for a minimum set of transparency requirements which social media companies must comply with and which are enforceable with fines.

1.2The recommendations fail to further include data minimisation requirements which protect the sensitive data of users and their digital rights.

1.3The Greens do not support platform-specific reforms because this fails to tackle the core of the issue. We urgently need a platform-neutral approach to policy because targeting a single platform based on the country it is linked to does nothing to protect Australians from foreign interference.

1.4Banning TikTok or any other singular platform from government devices is nothing but a game of digital whack-a-mole and does nothing to protect Australians. Bad actors will use their vast resources through whatever means necessary to meet their objectives and until we address the underlying causes Australians will continue to be subject to foreign interference threats.

Senator Sarah Hanson-YoungSenator David Shoebridge

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