- Posted on 23 Oct 2025
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Welcome to the latest addition of the CMT newsletter!
This week, Derek investigates ACMA’s latest decency breach finding against the Kyle and Jackie O show, and asks why we seem to be back at the beginning of the enforcement path.
Kieran examines the definitional hair-splitting underlying the public discussion about which platforms will fall under the social media ban, and queries whether the regulatory approach is genuinely responsive to risk.
Finally, I look at Elon Musk’s announcement of Grokipedia, his AI-generated alternative to Wikipedia, in the context of alarming drops in user traffic to both Wikipedia and news websites.
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