Australia is leading the fight against social media companies. Since the Christchurch terrorist attack on a Mosque in 2019, the government has passed a flurry of legislation which has already and will regulate the tech giants. The government’s most recent Online Safety Bill grants the eSafety Commissioner greater powers. We will hear real stories from people who have been affected by online abuse, harassment, and hate speech. The film will explore whether increased regulation works, should we hold social media companies responsible, and can we rely on policy to solve societal issues?
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And what will you do when the government starts to call criticism of the government "hate speech".
We did too much trolling.
Ok so You are telling me that if I do the same thing in real life and go somewhere and tell someone many Bad things, I could get up to 5k fine for defamation but if I do almost the same thing in the internet I could get a 100k fine?!?!?! That is just insane and idiotic
Good for Australia for cracking down on trolls in some way. Too bad it's not through extermination
Well so much for SKYNews, it was good laughing a them while it lasted.
An institution of liars make a law that protects their lies. Let China have Australia.
And Australia going around the world championing free speech in other countries? Their open hypocrisy for all the world to see is utterly disgusting
It’s a con. This law is just a way to silence and punish harsh critics of media, big business, and politicians.
I'm a descendant of Australia's slaves and I feel the prime minister is trolling me and my family so these new trolling laws in Australia are perfect
If it wasn't already clear enough that lawmakers are idiotic spineless cowards
Trolls? Basically anyone who exposes their corruption and lies. Of course the big tech and corporations will collude with the government to frame whistleblowers and truthers as trolls. They're basically corrupt tyrants that should be removed from office.
" internet troll " = someone who doesn't have the same opinion as you .
I heard Australia was going to be the next China. The Bill doesn't stop just death threats but it was pretty much stop messages that are not even offensive but certain groups of people won't like it. And that's disturbing. All this will do is make people distrust their government even more and I feel bad for the Aussies right now because their freedom of speech is under attack because if you disagree with the vaccine mandates you're immediately banned and you get fined over $100,000 and you're labeled and anti-vaxxer despite the fact that you may even just criticize the government on how it's handling it and you still be fined.
"STOP RESISTING. LET US PROTECT YOU."
Sounds like censorship
Literally funni number
I knew I shouldn’t of shat on that desk.
internet trolls wasnt the right word for this for sure , cause when i clicked on this video and especially with the intro i was expecting trolls harassing people with dumb jokes but that wasnt the case
Going after straight white men is the new norm. Asking the wrong question that the woke can't answer is becoming illegal. We must all listen to politically correct blatant obvious lies and never question the government bullshit narratives.
Let's all laugh at the clowns /
These fines are a joke. Media companies won’t pay for it. Typical Australians they aren’t the smartest breed in the world. There you go, go fine be 100k 😂😂😂