Internet Bureaucrats Protect Us Against Everything Except Online Crime

Published on May 24, 2024

Commentary Australia is a trailblazer in online safety, after all, we were first in the world in 2015 to establish an eSafety Commission—right? Well, maybe, but so what? Having a Commission is one thing, being “eSafe” is another. Recent events suggest that even with all our eSafety apparatus we lag significantly behind comparable overseas countries when it comes to actually keeping people safe. Earlier this week, it was revealed that an Israeli crime gang operating from Serbia had fleeced 90,000 people from 90 countries for a total of €350 million (US$378 million), of which 34,000 (38 percent) people came from Australia and lost €130 million (US$140 million)....

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