eSafety already has sweeping powers over online content. Albanese’s new law would expand its reach, strengthen its enforcement machinery and give the regulator even more leverage over Big Tech.
Jojo Mehta - founder of 'Stop Ecocide Now' - explains in her upper-class English accent to her ultra-rich peers in Davos that:
"We have this cultural, very ingrained habit of not taking damage to nature as seriously as we take damage to people or property."
Her goal is to have "mass damage and destruction of nature" legally recognised as "a serious crime."
"With human rights, mass murder and genocide are serious crimes, but there is no equivalent in the environmental space."
"Unlike an international crime like genocide that involves a specific intent, with ecocide, what we see is that people are trying to do is make money, is farm, is fish... and what's missing is an awareness of the side effects and collateral damage that happens..."