eSafety sends legal notices to social media companies asking how they handle terrorist content

eSafety has issued legal notices to Google, Meta, Twitter/X, WhatsApp, Telegram and Reddit. The notices issued via powers given to eSafety under the Online Safety act demand they "report on steps they are taking to protect Australians from terrorist and violent extremist material and activity" and "answer a series of detailed questions about how they are tackling the issue". eSafety will also be asking Telegram and Reddit about measures they have in place to detect and remove child sexual exploitation and abuse. The eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, was also in the news today having a whinge that more companies aren't using Microsoft's Photo DNA or Google's CSAI Match, not even Microsoft or Google themselves. Could it be, perhaps, that these auto-detection systems suck and aren't worth the massive amounts of false matches? If you think the software is so good, why don't use you use the very powerful Online Safety Act to force its use or shut down the online services that refuse to use it???