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: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 18 2019, @06:21AM
Doesn't matter. Intent is one of the first things to go when authoritarians are on a powertrip. If SN gets on the radar, they'll use the mallet on it just like they would anything else.