Inman Grant, who once worked for Twitter, gave the company 28 days to show it was serious about tackling the problem or face fines of 700,000 Australian dollars ($476,000) for every day it missed the deadline.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/6/22/australia-gives-twitter-28-days-to-sort-out-toxicity-and-hate
The Aljazeera article makes it sound like if twitter doesn’t totally solve hate-speech it gets fined. It just needs to outline the internal procedures it is undertaking to theoretically remove hate-speech. It’s a ‘please explain’ not a fix. I think the Australian media makes it a little clearer: I don’t actually personally know anyone down here who uses twitter, can’t imagine anyone would miss it too bad if Musk did shut it down here.
I do all my microblogging on kbin now. Sometimes Mastodon. Literally nothing of value will be lost if Elon pulls out of Aus
Oh get over it, Australia.
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They won’t. Australia might impose a fine but twitter won’t pay. Australia will not ban the app so really nothing will happen.
what prevents Twitter from just pulling out of the Australian market? it’s only 26 million people
My guess is nothing. TBH, I’ve no idea what Musk’s goal is with Twitter anymore. He wildly overpaid for it, has done nothing but hurt its value since the purchase, and has oddly taken to bullying random users on his own platform!
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him spend 28 days trolling the Australian government, people, culture, accent, etc. just for shits and giggles.
I’m kind of expecting him to (continue) run(ning) Twitter into the ground as some weird “because I can” flex on the rest of the world.
It really feels like Twitter hurt his feelings before, so he’s bought it with the express purpose of watching it burn to the ground
I think he’s a sadistic trouble-maker and wants to push things as far as he can to see if people will ever bring out the guillotines.
Nothing.
That’s the point.
If you don’t want to operate under the laws of a country, you don’t have to do business there.
You do want to run a business there? Then you do have to follow the local laws.
If it costs more (either in money or ideology) for Twitter to comply with this law than Aus brings in revenue, the smart move would be to block all Aus IPs from twitter.
But smart move is not how I would describe any of twitter’s actions in the past few months.
The smart move would be for Australia to make it own Twitter… with blackjack… And hookers.
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I hope they don’t let the door hit them on the way out.
I kind of hope it does, actually.
Let’s hope they decide to close down Europe access in August too
nothing, assuming he hasn’t fired the guy who knows how to geoblock the service lol
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It would be great if the Aussies and the EU both blocked Twitter. The site is now primarily used to spread disinformation, and to platform grifters. They don’t even attempt to hide it anymore.
It’s good that it is going this way. Imagine if Musk had kept his mask on, and trickled the trash in slow enough that people didn’t notice. It could be a powerful manipulation tool, in the right (wrong) hands. Thank goodness he’s an idiot.
