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CNN Shut Down its Facebook Page in Australia After Court Liability Ruling

posted by martyb on Friday October 01 2021, @05:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the glad-we-are-not-hosted-down-under dept.

DannyB writes:

CNN shut down its Facebook page in Australia after court liability ruling:

CNN shut down its Facebook page in Australia on Wednesday, after an Australian court ruled that media outlets are liable for defamatory user-generated comments.

[...] The deteriorating effects of the court's ruling on online speech in Australia serve as a warning of what's to come if U.S. lawmakers succeed in their efforts to weakening protections against such legal decisions in the United States.

[...] The court's ruling previews the grim future in store if U.S. politicians get their way and dismantle Section 230, the keystone U.S. law that shields websites from liability over user-generated content. Without it, social media platforms and any other website with user-generated content—especially those without Facebook's deep pockets—would likely die. Both Republicans and Democrats, President Joe Biden included, would like it dismantled.

Should the person doing the defaming be liable, or the owner of the page the defamation is posted on be liable?

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 01 2021, @06:12AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 01 2021, @06:12AM (#1183295)

    Primarily it should be the poster who should be liable, secondarily Facebook for providing the amplification. Don't know if a Facebook customer should be liable, but they shouldn't want to have anything to do with stuff that could get them involved in a libel suit.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 01 2021, @03:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 01 2021, @03:58PM (#1183404)

    If advertisers were made responsible, a solution to the problem would be discovered and implemented overnight. We might not like the result, though.

    We will probably end up with some DMCA like bullshit. And, just like the bogus DMCA notices, this will have the same, but with far-right trolls generating BS take down requests to stifle any speech critical of Nazism. Some far-right Nazi / evangelical christian / KKK / "alt right" hateful speech will get taken down too, but I predict that the Nazis will "win".