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I find it worrying when news outlets publish articles that simply repeat politicians talking points. We all know of laws that say one thing on the tin but are m

• defrost 2y ago
  Of course the wording isn't given: The attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, is expected to introduce legislation on Wednesday to create a new criminal offence of sharing, without consent, sexually explicit images that have been digitally created using artificial intelligence or other forms of technology. it will be available to all (reporters and the general public alike) once tabled to be considered on Wednesday. After that it will be debated, modified, and have to pass through two houses of government before it becomes "Law" and even then it will still have to pass through the "live testing" of actual charges and a non trivial court case on a real world application.
• zo1 2y ago
  They can be held liable or accountable for interpreting the details of the law incorrectly. This way the only thing they can be wrong for is misquoting what someone else said.