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Draft bill located here
I think the last one is key.
Also the bill doesn't empower the government to make individual rulings on misinformation. It says sites have to follow an industry code of practice to have systems in place to keep on top of misinformation.
Think of it as a way to avoid another Cronulla, or any of the pizza gate/Qanon shit happening here. i.e when news is breaking, sure let it through in the fog of war. But don't let people post for years that the election was stolen by the deep state kiddy fiddler alliance.
Well played, reptilians.
Yeah I figure there is a bit of leeway when it comes to misinformation. It's when it becomes serious and can cause harm, like yeah Qanon, vaccines cause autism, that sort of stuff.
I wonder if anything to do with religion gets classified under the excluded content clause (b)
Nope. It lists the excluded content on page 5. Can’t copy on my phone right now but basically just excludes good faith entertainment parody and satire; accredited educational bodies, professional news bodies and government bodies.
No mention of religion or belief in the entire bill.
You’d get a pass on interpretation but you won’t get a pass on making shit up that harms a religious or marginalised group. It defines harm too on page 6.
I bet the politicians have excluded themselves, because God knows they spout so much misinformation that they'd all be constantly in court.
Yep. In the draft bill, Anything published by any level of government or anything published by political parties about electoral matters or referendums is excluded. So they’re free to push misinformation to their hearts content.
Professional news content is also excluded. Though to be fair is probably included under other acma rules.
Well that's interesting. Murdoch's Fox News claimed it wasn't a news organisation in a court case.
So Sky News is gonna have to decide if it's a news organisation or potentially be up for misinformation....
Right. So the government is free to do a propaganda without consequence, but I can't? Wild.
They already have Parliamentary Privilege.