alecmAustralian Safety Exceptionalism: if content might be harmful to Australians it needs to be removed *globally* to protect them
Left unanswered: how do you know if someone is Australian yet using a VPN to access a platform as if from another country?
> In an exclusive interview with ABC Afternoon Briefing, Ms Inman-Grant argued the way the social media companies are structured meant content must be removed “globally”, and Australia should have the right to issue those take downs. “The idea of global deletion or wanting to ‘globally censor’ the internet is really a furphy … the simple fact of the matter is with all of these companies, they don’t have internet infrastructure or servers here, the only way you can remove that content is at scale, at the source, which is in California,” she said.
But it’s nothing to do with the way social media companies are structured. It’s everything to do with the internet being cross-border by default, and geo-fencing being an imperfect border control.
— Graham Smith ? (@Cyberleagle) June 5, 2024
* A furphy is Australian slang for an erroneous or improbable story that is claimed to be factual. Furphies are supposedly heard from reputable sources, sometimes secondhand or thirdhand, and widely believed until discounted. Wikipedia
