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martyb
on Wednesday April 17 2019, @05:49AM
from the waiting-until-they-try-to-legislate-"abhorent"-text dept.
from the waiting-until-they-try-to-legislate-"abhorent"-text dept.
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?
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Australia Passes Law Requiring Social Media to Remove Content Within one Hour
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @06:43AM (6 children)
Good luck on collecting those fines overseas, Australia. You might just want to pull your plug from the internet.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday April 17 2019, @07:29AM (5 children)
No need to collect them overseas. In the good tradition promoted by US:
1. trigger an Interpol warrant and extradition for the CEO-s
2. launch a suit in Australian courts and freeze the assets of the companies operating in Australia
3. on infringement, block facebook/tweeter/etc access the same way TPB is blocked. This way, maybe more Australians will become internet-savvy and able to avoid the block.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 18 2019, @04:02AM (4 children)
Poor Deucalion. We'll miss him. He won't be the first Brit to get transported to OZ to serve a sentence though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 18 2019, @04:11AM (3 children)
You managed to find a sacrificial lamb, I see.
No worries, mate, she'll be apples.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 18 2019, @01:14PM (2 children)
He's the CEO. You said go after the CEOs.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @11:26PM (1 child)
Yes, got it the first time.
The only questions still opened: does S/N pay him fair? One would expect double salary for a double role, so... 2x$0, right?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday April 20 2019, @01:35PM
Nah, we're big fans of absurdly large CXX compensation around here. He makes 1000x what the eds make. Only a third of what I make though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.