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posted by martyb on Wednesday April 17 2019, @05:49AM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @12:55AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 18 2019, @12:55AM (#831446)

    Yeah, just vote it up or down and add comments before it is published

    Oops. Forgot this isn't Pipedot

    Carry on.

  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday April 18 2019, @07:50AM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 18 2019, @07:50AM (#831545) Journal

    Yeah, just vote it up or down and add comments before it is published

    This is exactly how shills, trolls (and some ACs) could prevent topics that they do not like from ever reaching the front page. We should be prepared to discuss all topics that are appropriate to this site in an honest way whether we support the statements in the TFS/TFA or not. Commenting before a story is released is hardly wise and partly pointless because the story might still be edited significantly before it actually hits the front page. Furthermore, the editors still have to weed out those submissions that are not related to STEM or other topics that we occasionally cover, remove duplicates of stories already released (and sometimes have been covered repeatedly or many months before) and other story management tasks that we are responsible for.

    The ideal solution is, I believe, more editors but that is a perennial problem with a site such as ours.

    The most recent story I can find on Pipedot is dated 2017. Unfortunately, it didn't work out too well for them, did it? Good looking site though....