Social media executives risk jail for failing to take down violent extremist content quickly, under controversial laws passed in Australia Thursday -- a"world first" in the wake of the Christchurch mosques massacre.
Technology companies, policy experts and lawyers pilloried the legislation -- which was jammed through parliament in two days and faces an uncertain future beyond elections expected in May. It will be up to a jury to decide whether the platforms acted with good speed to take down offending content, raising questions about how the law will be implemented.
She also warned that the law would encourage companies to"proactively surveil" users and slammed parliament's"pass it now, change it later" approach.Technology companies now face the task of developing failsafe moderation tools capable of quickly detecting offensive material in hundreds of billions of media uploads to their platforms.
The legislation could be a particular problem for smaller platforms used by the far-right, like 4Chan and 8Chan.
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