Treated like children

Treated like children

As published in The Saturday Paper March 11 2021 Public policy should not be left to the cult of personality, no matter how amicable the current eSafety Commissioner may be. The best protection against unintended consequences is for this legislation to be surgically...
News Corp Bargaining Code

News Corp Bargaining Code

As featured on Juice Media on Wednesday 3 March, 2021 A chat about about the News Media Bargaining Code to get a deeper understanding. Sources Here’s the legislation:...
The Judgment of Paris – Facebook VS the Communards

The Judgment of Paris – Facebook VS the Communards

Published in Baffler March 2021 In August 2019, Facebook settled an eight-year legal dispute with a French schoolteacher. The complaint, made by Frédéric Durand, accused the platform of deleting his account because he posted an image of Gustave Courbet’s iconic oil...
Can Australia Save Journalism From the Internet?

Can Australia Save Journalism From the Internet?

As published in The New York Times | Opinion on Wednesday, 24 February, 2021. Last week Facebook carried out what may have been the single largest content takedown in its history. Any content that looked vaguely like news, even if it very much was not, disappeared...
Facebook VS the media code: whoever wins, we lose

Facebook VS the media code: whoever wins, we lose

Published in Overland Thursday, 18 February, 2021. Facebook has followed through on its promise, banning news content on its platform in response to the media bargaining code currently before parliament. Although it was something that Google had talked about most...
Podcast – Australia’s Plan to Make Tech Pay for News

Podcast – Australia’s Plan to Make Tech Pay for News

Tech Won’t Save Us Podcast with Paris Marx. Listen to podcast. More ways to listen: Apple Spotify Overcast Google Stitcher Podcast Addict Paris Marx is joined by Lizzie O’Shea to discuss how Australia’s plan to make Google and Facebook pay news publishers...
Australia’s flawed push to make Big Tech pay for news

Australia’s flawed push to make Big Tech pay for news

As published in Nikkei Asia on Friday, February 12, 2021. Lizzie O’Shea is a human rights lawyer. She is author of “Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us about Digital Technology.” The experience of online...
The trouble with the media bargaining code

The trouble with the media bargaining code

Published in the Overland. Sunday, 14 December, 2020. The proposed news media bargaining code tabled last week has been praised by many journalists. It’s also deeply flawed. The scheme requires that organisations apply to the Australian Media and Communications...
Human Rights Week. Equality Talks: Part 2 – New frontiers

Human Rights Week. Equality Talks: Part 2 – New frontiers

Tuesday December 8, 2020. Register The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted almost every aspect of life as we knew it. Existing structural inequalities were highlighted, and often exacerbated, while ‘COVID-normal’ is asking us to take radically different approaches to the ways...
E&T Review Future Histories

E&T Review Future Histories

My book reviewed by E&T: Public interest lawyer Lizzie O’Shea makes the case for learning from our past to mould a progressive and democratic digital future. Digital technologies have already reshaped the world and continue to do so at a pace that makes it a...