Australia has rammed through another law requiring “abhorrent” video, audio or still images to be removed within an hour. This will apply to content providers both in and out of Australia as long as the content is available to Australians. Individuals and companies face jail time and/or huge fines if the content is not removed "within a reasonable time". If the content is found to be hosted in Australia then the Australian government must be alerted. This is yet another knee jerk reaction to the NZ shootings which were streamed live online.
Who is paying for someone to be awake at 3am to curate and remove this stuff?
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday April 17 2019, @11:29AM (1 child)
But how will companies guarantee that they will always have somebody 'commuting' to look at the feeds and able to respond within any specific timescale? Who will do it on the weekends, public holidays etc? How will different individuals know the standards regarding acceptable and unacceptable material? How would they be held responsible if they claim that they have viewed and passed 'x' videos which subsequently turn out to be unacceptable? It will have to be more formalised than this, I suspect, to provide the level of service being demanded/expected.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday April 18 2019, @07:19AM
Same way uber does. Higher rates ifthetes high demand. Charge makers more to get priority moderation.