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Elon Musk vs Australia: global content take-down orders can harm the internet if adopted widely (theconversation.com)
submitted 1 year ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/australia@aussie.zone
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Do Australian courts have the right to decide what foreign citizens, located overseas, view online on a foreign-owned platform?

Anyone inclined to answer “yes” to this question should perhaps also ask themselves whether they are equally happy for courts in China, Russia and Iran to determine what Australians can see and post online in Australia.

This is the problem with global “take-down orders”, an issue we now must confront in light of the Australian eSafety commissioner demanding that social media platform X (formerly Twitter) remove videos of a violent stabbing at a church in Sydney.

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[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

If its illegal to share in Australia and happened in Australia, then I can see ho legally there is a distinction. However, the same would be true of Tiananmen square.

One government should not have control outside its borders. The USA has already eroded this with their attempt to get Assange. This is just a natural extension of that.

Government control ends at our borders. So does other countries.