Online platforms spreading misinformation and disinformation could face millions of dollars in penalties under new proposed federal government legislation that bolsters the power of Australia's media watchdog.
https://www.acma.gov.au/ would have the power to go after an organisation for publishing it, so effectively them.
I don’t have a problem with this in principle, I would just want there to be some caveats in it.
Conspiracy theories spreading on Facebook are a problem that Facebook needs to step up and help address, but that doesn’t mean I think they should be held liable every time a cooker posts nonsense.
The most important question of all. If you look at all the massive corruption scandals that FriendlyJordies has exposed on youtube over the last 5 years, it’s not hard to see that this will be immediately misused to silence the voices of people like him who are out there shining light on government corruption and political wrongdoing.
It’s effectively a ministry of truth on our own shores: they decide what is true and what is untrue on any given day. I realise we’ve had massive issues here being infiltrated by hard-right whackjob ‘not news’ services spreading rubbish, but any time you try to legislate an arbitrator of ‘truth’, you are just opening the door to thought control and potentially hiding dirty deeds that should be brought to light.
I am not in favour of this at all. I’d rather deal with my relatives becoming Qanon’d than have the government decide on consensus reality. They can’t even understand an issue as simple as vaping.
Who gets to decide what is true?
https://www.acma.gov.au/ would have the power to go after an organisation for publishing it, so effectively them.
I don’t have a problem with this in principle, I would just want there to be some caveats in it.
Conspiracy theories spreading on Facebook are a problem that Facebook needs to step up and help address, but that doesn’t mean I think they should be held liable every time a cooker posts nonsense.
The most important question of all. If you look at all the massive corruption scandals that FriendlyJordies has exposed on youtube over the last 5 years, it’s not hard to see that this will be immediately misused to silence the voices of people like him who are out there shining light on government corruption and political wrongdoing.
It’s effectively a ministry of truth on our own shores: they decide what is true and what is untrue on any given day. I realise we’ve had massive issues here being infiltrated by hard-right whackjob ‘not news’ services spreading rubbish, but any time you try to legislate an arbitrator of ‘truth’, you are just opening the door to thought control and potentially hiding dirty deeds that should be brought to light.
I am not in favour of this at all. I’d rather deal with my relatives becoming Qanon’d than have the government decide on consensus reality. They can’t even understand an issue as simple as vaping.