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Support towards measures to regulate big tech companies

2 Mar 2021

Q. To what extent would you support or oppose the following measures if they were introduced to regulate big tech companies?

TOTAL: Support Total Gender Age Group Federal Voting Intention
Male Female 18-34 35-54 55+ Labor TOTAL: Coalition Greens TOTAL: Other
Force tech companies to remove misinformation and disinformation from their platforms 76% 74% 77% 70% 69% 87% 75% 76% 85% 75%
Require tech companies to let you know all the information about you they hold and give you the right to remove it from their servers 76% 75% 76% 70% 71% 85% 78% 77% 81% 72%
Prevent tech companies from selling your personal information to other companies 79% 79% 79% 73% 75% 88% 78% 80% 85% 80%
Enforce upon tech companies the payment of tax on all Australians earnings 69% 73% 65% 57% 64% 84% 71% 71% 67% 74%
Base (n) 1,074 527 547 326 363 385 335 396 106 138
  • Support is highest among those over 55 towards preventing tech companies from selling your personal information to other companies (88% compared to 75% of those 35-54 and 73% of those 18-34).
  • Those over 55 are also more likely to strongly support the measure to force tech companies to remove misinformation and disinformation from their platforms than younger cohorts (68% to 46% 35-54 and 44% 18-34).
  • While support is high overall towards requiring tech companies to let you know all the information about you they hold and give you the right to remove it from their servers, again, those over 55 are more likely to strongly support this than younger audiences (63% to 51% 35-54 and 46% those 18-34).
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