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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?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 01 2021, @11:25AM (1 child)
not sure what wants to be perpetrated here: there is really no such thing as "cnn's australia facebook page".
digital information is not a physical commodity you can weight or touch or smell. thus it makes no sense to attribute a physical location to it.
however if you say that "cnn has stopped storing information on facebook storage devices located in australia" ... well ... that is just news that the ugly head of "geo fencing" of the internet is rearing its ugly head again. then again, that is nothing new with australia.
also a quick reminder that when you download digitally, the data doesn't necessarily disappear from original location ... unlike real physical things, like oil disappear s from the ground, shows up in your car tank and its liberated energy is lost forever after stepping on the breaks at the next red redlight (red lights are a forced tax to facilitate more oil liberation from the ground fyi). or, uranium disappears, and steam turns up turning a elec. generator with happiness ensueing whilst watching a electrically facilitated soccer match ... also some rubbish waste atoms need to be dealt with.
*sigh* nobody wants to make laws for new paradigms ... for those that are more serious about studying the law, maybe setting up a think tank (and funding it!) that studies the implications of new technology, like a replicator or a transporter (star trek) and ... a networked computer. for that matter ... just a computer will do! much consideration is put into starting a war with extensive "war games" performed before any one shot is fired. why the same consideration for sane laws for new technology (woohoo a printing press!) isn't implemented is anyone guess.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 01 2021, @12:00PM
Is that what an acid trip is like? Are the colors like, amaaaazing?