There’s no overstepping from Australia. No tech site has special rights to share explicit and violent content filmed within Australian borders. The US has no special right to be the only county to legislate. The failure is with big tech not undertaking basic moderation duties.
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Australia shouldn't have rights over content worldwide simply because it was filmed within Australian borders - what if Russia, or China or Israel used this same reasoning? They would be able to block Westerners from seeing anything happening in Crimea, or Xinjiang or the West Bank that makes them look bad. This is total overreach. If our government wants to block us from seeing something, I'm still against it - but where do they get the right to decide what the entire world can or can't see?
Just so we’re clear, this is what many would say is traumatic live footage of someone getting stabbed, like actual. And meta has taken it down on Insta and Facebook. But you don’t think it’s sorta weird that right now it’s circulating on X, due to the arbitrary decisions of whoever owns the platform on a particular day?
>There’s no overstepping from Australia.
So anything Australia doesn't want on the internet cannot be shared anywhere in the world? Australian law is now world law for the internet.
BTW I'm Australian.
Yea so the latest, we had the church stabbing and then next thing there’s a riot outside the church. U don’t reckon it’s a good moment to cool it on spreading a video of a live stabbing in a church?
“A riot broke out outside the church after hundreds of people gathered outside after the stabbing and NSW Police said more than 50 officers in attendance were injured.”
Ref: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-24/nsw-sydney-counter-te...
That is not a compelling argument whatsoever.
I don't sympathize with people using the very weak excuse of religion to break laws.
The rioters can go to jail as well.
For what it's worth, the priest himself has come out saying that he did not want the video taken down.
Honestly, I don't see why this video should be any different to the thousands of other videos you could watch if you search for "stabbing" on any platform.
It's ridiculous that these clowns think that they should be able to police what can be shown on the internet outside Australia.
Australia wants to hide it's immigrant integration problem. That's what they want it hide this.
Violence depicted in media is quite readily available in Australia.
This came from the esafety commission not from the executive, the commission has separate powers and is free to enact them. And yes in Australia they are seeking to de-escalate political tensions that could arise from sharing the material, such as copycat violence.
Further: Initial notices warned social media platforms that footage of the stabbing was illegal 'Class 1 material' and should be removed immediately.
Class 1 material is content that promotes or incites violence or is likely to cause offence to a reasonable person.
What's interesting to me is that the regular TV networks show the clip every day on the news.
They only show the leadup, not the actual stabbing, but you would think that they would not be permitted to show any of it at all, since it has been defined as "content that promotes or incites violence or is likely to cause offence to a reasonable person".
But no, it's shown every evening.
If I didn't know better, I would be inclined to think that the TV channels were trying to incite violence and cause offence.
>hide it's immigrant integration problem
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/18/bondi-...
>But untrue tweets on the “must be a Muslim” theme went viral.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-68822846
> Simeon Boikov, Russian consulate in Sydney, Under the alter ego "Aussie Cossack", he posted untrue speculation that a 20-year-old Jewish university student was the attacker who had stabbed and killed five women and one man at a Westfield shopping centre in Sydney.
>"Unconfirmed reports identify the Bondi attacker as Benjamin Cohen. Cohen? Really? And to think so many commentators tried to initially blame Muslims."
Its almost as twitter is crucial in spreading hatred and misinformation on behalf of adversary regimes.
They already got the content blocked in Australia. The overstepping is demanding that it be blocked in other countries too.
But it is not really blocked in Australia though it is only geo blocked. People using VPNs can still see it in Australia.
As an Australian, I could get a plane ticket to the US to watch it too...
Maybe we should try to be more like North Korea. No chance of seeing wrongmedia that way.