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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 01 2021, @01:51PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 01 2021, @01:51PM (#1183366)

    would we miss it?

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Friday October 01 2021, @04:46PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 01 2021, @04:46PM (#1183417) Journal

    The web isn't all bad. Remember when it started. It was a convenient way to access tons of useful information. It still is. But that is now drowned out by advertising and so-called "social" media which is actually antisocial.

    Consider a hypothetical experiment.

    Suppose we got rid of all "social media" websites. And we kept all sites that were useful sources of information, or commerce, or that served some other useful purpose, even IMDB. Would the web have any value?

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    • (Score: 2) by BK on Sunday October 03 2021, @11:34PM (1 child)

      by BK (4868) on Sunday October 03 2021, @11:34PM (#1183984)
      I remember when it started. It was a convenient way to access tons of porn. Still is really. Some of it isn’t bad. Some of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs [youtube.com]
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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday October 02 2021, @01:53PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Saturday October 02 2021, @01:53PM (#1183654) Homepage Journal

    WTF is wrong with you??? Never heard of Wikipedia? Google? Foreign newspapers? You're apparently so young you've never known a world without the internet, or so old that the internet is new to you; I had a grandpa like that. My uncle had a bathroom installed in Grandpa's house, but Grandpa still used the outhouse until they put him in a nursing home and he had to use an indoor toilet.

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