New Digital Safety Commission faces overload of regulatory responsibilities

Here comes the digital commission. It will make policy, take complaints, investigate abuses, review plans and regulate companies' collection and use of personal information

When it was first outlined in a bill to regulate social media last week, the Digital Safety Commission sounded like a body with some flexibility to grapple with some of the thorny, evolving problems of regulating big platforms

The new digital commission is still on the drawing board, but it is being overloaded with so many responsibilities that you have to wonder whether it will be crushed under its own weight