Commentary
There’s an intriguing photograph of the four people who head up Australia’s Digital Platforms Regulators Forum. A row of smiling women. The control of our county’s high tech online world is firmly in female hands, with not a skerrick of gender diversity to be seen.
This would be fine if we could be assured that they were acting in all our best interests. But the problem is that when it comes to one of the key players, the powerful eSafety Commission, it’s not clear that its 435 employees—laden with a $31 million annual budget—is trying to protect all of us from online abuse….