{"id":23992,"date":"2026-07-19T07:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/victoria-announces-new-social-media-demasking-powers-for-accounts-accused-of-vilification\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T07:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:37:28","slug":"victoria-announces-new-social-media-demasking-powers-for-accounts-accused-of-vilification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/victoria-announces-new-social-media-demasking-powers-for-accounts-accused-of-vilification\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria announces new social media \u2018demasking\u2019 powers for accounts accused of vilification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New laws would give Vcat power to force social and AI platforms to identify anonymous users in move premier says will protect children<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Social media companies could be forced to identify anonymous accounts accused of online vilification, under new laws being proposed in Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, announced a suite of social media reforms on Sunday, saying families needed new ways to protect their children online.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/jul\/19\/victoria-proposes-social-media-account-identification-powers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/996728756455f65338ff7981cbc106003ad68ae5\/654_0_6013_4811\/master\/6013.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e517b27ebfadef219bba1f982cc52c71\" title=\"Victoria announces new social media \u2018demasking\u2019 powers for accounts accused of vilification\" \/>New laws would give Vcat power to force social and AI platforms to identify anonymous users in move premier says will protect children<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nSocial media companies could be forced to identify anonymous accounts accused of online vilification, under new laws being proposed in Victoria.<br \/>\nThe Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, announced a suite of social media reforms on Sunday, saying families needed new ways to protect their children online. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New laws would give Vcat power to force social and AI platforms to identify anonymous users in move premier says will protect children Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Social media companies could be forced to identify anonymous accounts accused of online vilification, under new laws being proposed in Victoria. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/victoria-announces-new-social-media-demasking-powers-for-accounts-accused-of-vilification\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Victoria announces new social media \u2018demasking\u2019 powers for accounts accused of vilification<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23992"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}