Lawyers admonish government’s ‘knee jerk’ social media regulation plans
The government’s plan to crack down on Facebook in the wake of the Christchurch terror attack is a “knee jerk emotional reaction”, according to a statement issued by the president of the Law Council, Arthur Moses.
New laws proposed by the government would fine social media companies and potentially send its executives to jail over live streamed crimes.
“Every rational person agrees that violent or criminal content must not be allowed to be broadcast by individuals using social media platforms,” said Moses, the president of the Australian legal profession’s representative body.
Wouldn’t be like the Government to have a knee jerk reaction to a problem. They literally shut down Sydney off the back of a knee jerk reaction.
Google and FB are just big, easy targets for the govt despite only being the vehicle that allowed the horrible act to be streamed.
The likes of Andrew Bolt and Alan Jones are allowed to continually dogwhistle to racists and marginalise minorities, which is arguably more damaging.
But they also support the LNP, so there’s clearly no issue there…