Australia media can be sued for social media comments, court rules

Re:Australia media can be sued for social media comments, co... by SilverRed on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:52PM (#28465678)

How high up do we go though? Is it the news org that created the space for comments? The website owner who created the tools to create a space? The hosting platform who provided the space to host the website? Or the ISP who delivered those comments to the user?

If facebook is responsible, why not the ISP as well? Maybe we should accept that platforms like facebook and reddit are similar to VPS hosting companies where we delegate the legal responsibility down further to the one who used the software to create the space.

This might actually be a good thing as delegating down means a much larger group of people moderating and those people moderate as they see fit but become legally responsible for their actions.

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Re:Australia media can be sued for social media comments, co... by jay_kyburz on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:26PM (#28465859)

I think you are heading in the right direction. I think it all comes down to moderation.

If Facebook was and unmoderated wild west with a linear timeline, then people would know they have to self moderate.

Facebook as made some decisions about what is acceptable, then actively promotes that content to other people, that is taking responsibility for the content, so they should be held responsible as well.

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Re:Australia media can be sued for social media comments, co... by dzhiurgis on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @11:36PM (#28465912)

So if news corp moderates some comments out do they also get to sue the comment author?

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