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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 17 2019, @08:50PM (1 child)
Even if you think this is generally a good idea (which i don't), one hour to remove each request, which could basically mean hundreds of them are given any hour (as there is no limit on how many can be given at one time), or as said, during night time is completely moronic and unrealistic. Just like each and every zero tolerance policy is an idea from people who have lost their sense of realism completely. An hour is not reasonable time.
Way to go, Kim is proud of you Australia!
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Thursday April 18 2019, @06:43AM
The time isn't specified. Facetube might get one hour if they haven't been keeping an eye on things, myvideosofkittensandpuppies.org will get more leeway.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.