{"id":161,"date":"2025-02-24T20:51:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T09:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/2025\/02\/24\/the-australian-government-fined-telegram-1-million-for-failing-to-cooperate-with-the-esafety-commissioner-but-platforms-like-instagram-and-facebook-where-millions-of-cases-of-child-abuse-occur\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T09:52:00","slug":"the-australian-government-fined-telegram-1-million-for-failing-to-cooperate-with-the-esafety-commissioner-but-platforms-like-instagram-and-facebook-where-millions-of-cases-of-child-abuse-occur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/2025\/02\/24\/the-australian-government-fined-telegram-1-million-for-failing-to-cooperate-with-the-esafety-commissioner-but-platforms-like-instagram-and-facebook-where-millions-of-cases-of-child-abuse-occur\/","title":{"rendered":"The #Australian government fined #Telegram $1 million for failing to cooperate with the #eSafety Commissioner, but platforms like #Instagram and #Facebook, where millions of cases of #childabuse occur, have faced little accountability. #Meta avoids using &#8220;child abuse&#8221; as a reporting option, making it harder to flag serious exploitation, and despite government investigations, no major fines have been issued against them.\nWhile Telegram was penalized, Meta continues to delay compliance with #childsafety regulations, even pushing for encryption that could hide abuse further. This selective enforcement raises concerns that big tech giants are being treated more leniently than smaller platforms."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/tag\/australian\/\">#Australian<\/a> government fined <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/tag\/telegram\/\">#Telegram<\/a> $1 million for failing to cooperate with the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/tag\/esafety\/\">#eSafety<\/a> Commissioner, but platforms like <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/tag\/instagram\/\">#Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/tag\/facebook\/\">#Facebook<\/a>, where millions of cases of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/tag\/childabuse\/\">#childabuse<\/a> occur, have faced little accountability. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/tag\/meta\/\">#Meta<\/a> avoids using &#8220;child abuse&#8221; as a reporting option, making it harder to flag serious exploitation, and despite government investigations, no major fines have been issued against them.<br \/>\nWhile Telegram was penalized, Meta continues to delay compliance with <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/tag\/childsafety\/\">#childsafety<\/a> regulations, even pushing for encryption that could hide abuse further. This selective enforcement raises concerns that big tech giants are being treated more leniently than smaller platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The #Australian government fined #Telegram $1 million for failing to cooperate with the #eSafety Commissioner,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,73,70,68,72,71,69,67],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-australian","tag-childabuse","tag-childsafety","tag-esafety","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-meta","tag-telegram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kevinjam.au\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}