By James Panichi ( September 4, 2025, 04:21 GMT | Insight) -- Big Tech can’t be trusted to extend practices adopted in jurisdictions with strong, forward-looking regulation to other jurisdictions that don’t have similar regulation in place, Australia’s top antitrust regulator has said. Appearing on a podcast this week, Gina Cass-Gottlieb said that, in most cases, tech platforms “adapt their business model to the jurisdiction that they are in” — suggesting that unless Australia adopts its own “ex ante” tech regulation, it won’t benefit from overseas developments.Big Tech can’t be trusted to extend practices adopted in jurisdictions with strong, forward-looking regulation to other jurisdictions that don’t have similar regulation in place, Australia’s top antitrust regulator has said....
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