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Australia Passes Law Requiring Social Media to Remove Content Within one Hour

posted by martyb on Wednesday April 17 2019, @05:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the waiting-until-they-try-to-legislate-"abhorent"-text dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:30PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @01:30PM (#831001)

    We are currently very stretched and the 2 separate checks per story are not always being done before a story is released.

    So why refusing help from others that can't stand as editors but occasionally can signal fishy things?

    The provision of a "Firehose" facility has been discussed and considered, and it was felt that such a feature could lead to stories being suppressed by malicious actors.

    Yeah, right. It's the firehose or nothing, no other solutions can be imagined or tried.

    If community members read TFA and not just the summary this would also be a non-issue. The discrepancy between the source and the summary would be identified by the first couple of readers and could be flagged in the comments immediately.

    There is an issue: the cacophony of trolling has support just from the very beginning, TFS is trolling.

  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday April 17 2019, @02:19PM (2 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 17 2019, @02:19PM (#831028) Journal

    So why refusing help from others that can't stand as editors but occasionally can signal fishy things?

    By all means raise the issue again if you feel it is now necessary or even desirable, but with our limited staff the software updates will not be possible for several months or more.

    It is your choice that you cannot stand as an editor - sign up and you can. We do not allow ACs to control what people can read and what they cannot, just as they cannot moderate. It is your decision.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @07:20AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @07:20AM (#831541)

      It is your choice that you cannot stand as an editor - sign up and you can.

      It is the availability of spare time to dedicate to it, even more the lack of predictability that stops me offering support as an editor.

      • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday April 18 2019, @07:29AM

        by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 18 2019, @07:29AM (#831542) Journal
        That is undoubtedly our loss - but keep on commenting because every comment is a contribution to the site too!