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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: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 18 2019, @12:57AM (7 children)
It's not absolute, though, is it? Not even with in the dear USofA.
In sorta chronological order, starting with 'shouting fire in a crowded theater when there's no fire' and ending with the scrubbing ISIS propaganda videos out of the internet.
The fact that the Australian judiciary is meant to be involved in what constitutes "abhorent speech" in Australia is a check/balance good enough for me.
I consider as good the fact that different people in different countries can define for themselves the way they want to live, without being forced to adopt, for example, "the American way" in all aspects of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 18 2019, @05:09AM (6 children)
An even better check/balance is to not have the government involved at all. Then it doesn't matter if the judiciary does its job or not.
Until those tools developed for oppression in other countries start getting used in your country against you. There are some things that are reprehensible even when they happen in other countries.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 18 2019, @05:38AM (5 children)
Qualify your statement with a "for me" too and I won't object to your choice.
Let it as an absolute (like in "always better without government") and I'll tell you in polite terms I disagree and we can let it there and spare us of wasting time.
Let's get it there and we'll see - there is no demonstrable necessity it will happen as such.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 18 2019, @06:18AM (4 children)
I don't care about your objection. I just care about being right and free.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 18 2019, @06:21AM (3 children)
I don't care about your dreams or delusions too. Let's keep it this way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 18 2019, @06:29AM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday April 18 2019, @06:37AM (1 child)
And I'm still going to oppose your crap because it already tries for a long time to adjust the rules of life in other countries with total disregard of self-determination and local traditional cultures.
Even more so that it does it with no qualms in using force against citizens [wikipedia.org] or countries [wikipedia.org].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 18 2019, @01:25PM
I think you have my culture confused with the culture that is imposing these censorship rules on Australia. We already can see who made the first move.