[AusNOG] More legislative interventions

[Simon Sharwood]

So I was in a thing yesterday with a very senior government relations
person from one of the top 3 clouds. And they'd been advised the
legislation had very vague wording, meant that they and all cloud services
had potential liability.

At least one other major cloud's lobbyists had the same advice. Both tried
to alert the government to the fact they'd cast the net far wider than
anticipated.


So some hurried back-channel efforts were made to change the wording of the
legislation to be more specific about social media.

Those changes weren't made and this government relations pro was
flabbergasted at the haste and lack of consultation.

He said it just makes it easier for people to fling FUD at the whole local
industry.


On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 10:47 AM Narelle Clark <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Just to clarify - it was introduced to the Senate and approved last night.
> It will hit the House of Reps today.
>
> And the PJCIS hasn't even seen it.
>
> This is flawed in so many ways, and it will affect our industry massively.
>
> Why should anyone build a content related business here? How do we protect
> staff and customers from malicious posting in order to invoke this
> legislation?
>
> Narelle
>
> On Thu, 4 Apr. 2019, 10:43 am Narelle Clark, <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Parliament has just rushed through more impractical legislation to jail
>> executives of content providers (that would be all of us) if vile content
>> is not removed "expeditiously".
>>
>> Here is some reaction to it...
>>
>> Overview:
>> https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-04-04/facebook-youtube-social-media-laws-rushed-and-flawed-critics-say/10965812
>>
>> Law Council:
>> https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/am/start-ups-concerned-about-new-social-media-laws/10969282
>>
>>
>> Scott Farquar:
>> https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/rushed-social-media-legislation-is-seriously-flawed/10969482
>>
>>
>> Narelle
>>
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