{"id":883471,"date":"2024-12-03T08:40:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T03:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=883471"},"modified":"2024-12-03T09:17:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T03:47:35","slug":"proposed-australia-law-would-fine-big-tech-over-digital-competition-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/03\/proposed-australia-law-would-fine-big-tech-over-digital-competition-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Australia law would fine Big Tech over digital competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia proposed a law on Monday that could impose fines of up to A$50 million ($33 million) on global technology companies if they suppress competition and prevent consumers from switching between services. <\/p>\n<p>The centre-left Labor government has targeted Big Tech\u2019s influence, and parliament passed a law last week that banned social media for children aged under 16. <\/p>\n<p>The proposed law would empower Australia\u2019s competition regulator to oversee compliance, investigate anti-competitive practices online and fine companies, Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones said in excerpts of a speech due later on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia proposed a law on Monday that could impose fines of up to A$50 million ($33 million) on global technology companies if they suppress competition and prevent consumers from switching between services. The centre-left Labor government has targeted Big Tech\u2019s influence, and parliament passed a law last week that banned social media for children aged under 16. The proposed law would empower Australia\u2019s competition regulator to oversee compliance, investigate anti-competitive practices online and fine companies, Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones said in excerpts of a speech due later on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}