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Social media” companies with 250k Aussie users must be sue-able

• andrewstuart 5y ago
  "Platforms with at least 250,000 Australian users would need to set up a local entity to handle complaints from users about potentially defamatory comments, including dealing with requests for information about the identity of an anonymous commenter to enable an alleged victim of online defamation to sue the person directly." Presumably the government will force ISPs to block companies that don't set up a local company ready to be sued. The ability to block sites was of course sold to the public as a necessary measure for dealing with terrorist and child pornographers - not it'll just be used for, well, whatever. The thing that surprises me is that no matter how hard the Australian government tightens the ratchet against tech companies, they never just pull out of Australia. It's like all the overseas tech companies like taking a whipping from the Australian government and come back for more. if (totalSubscribersFromAustralia > 250000) { response.write("Sorry, our service is not available in Australia") }