The Australian Government has reacted swiftly to the tragic events that have taken place in neighboring New Zealand, as legislation has already been passed targeting social networking platforms for their inability to tolerate the sharing of violent images and videos.
Μwith the bill "The Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material", Australia will consider it a criminal offense to invalidate the Federal Police information about the existence of violent content in photos / videos and the inability to remove it from the respective platform within a reasonable period of time.
This includes terrorist acts, murder, attempted murder, torture, rape or kidnapping and the penalty will translate into a fine of $ 10.5 Australian dollars (approximately € 6.5 million) or 10% of the company's annual budget or up to 3 years in prison.
The reasonable period of time will be set, according to the Attorney General Christian porter, by the Judge in each case separately. He did not give examples, but in the case of the tragedy in Christchurch stated that it is inadmissible that the videos in question remained uploaded on Facebook after 1 hour without any action by the managers of the social network.
Representatives of major technology companies, such as Google, Facebook and Twitter, say the bill is absurd and effectively punishes and / or threatens to imprison employees for content created and shared by users. They also stress that it is unclear on specific points, such as the "reasonable period of time" and who will be responsible for the possible penalty, especially in huge companies such as Facebook.
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