Calls for an ABC-run social network to replace Facebook and Google are misguided. With what money?
There’s been a suggestion for the ABC to set up its own social media site, should the ACCC bargaining code go ahead and Facebook stand by its threat to remove news from its platform. In this crossposting from The Conversation, Fiona R Martin explains why that’s not the solution.
If Facebook prevented Australian news from being shared on its platform, could the ABC start its own social media service to compensate? While this proposal from the Australia Institute is a worthy one, it’s an impossible ask in the current political climate.
The suggestion is one pillar of the think tank’s new Tech-xit report.
