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Communications and Information Minister Budi Arie Setiadi has revived a plan to set up a council to monitor social media content and make these platforms “more accountable”, despite fears over its potential impact on freedom of speech online.
News publishers and governments like Australia have argued that Facebook and Google unfairly benefit in terms of advertising revenue when links to news articles appear on their platforms. Meta has been scaling back its promotion of news and political content to drive traffic and says news links are now a fraction of users' feeds.
TikTok seems to present an easy target for many countries, but seeing how the line between communication and trade is blurring today, especially in the retail sector, the government would do well to take a look at the broader implications of banning social commerce, lest it clamp down on homegrown start-ups that are supporting Indonesia's economic backbone: MSMEs.
The Online Streaming Act creates a legal framework to regulate digital platforms and oblige them to contribute financially to the "creation, production and distribution" of Canadian content such as music and TV shows as well as its promotion.
