Australia's shadow communications minister Michelle Rowland questions whether Facebook's news ban is the "beginning of the end" for the platform in Australia, as eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant calls Facebook out for not doing enough in areas such as child safety.
Spare us the Google-eyed crackpots: the case for a viable news business
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February 5, 2021 6.28pm
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The Jewish bankers control the secret space lasers, don’t you know? That’s how they started the bushfires in California. The fires were lit from space to clear the route for a proposed high-speed rail line.
The US congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene spelt it out on Facebook, so it’s not a secret any longer. She’s clever to figure it out, no doubt about it: “Too many coincidences to ignore,” as she said, putting the former Governor of California, Jerry Brown, at the centre of the conspiracy. Greene is a Republican, Brown a Democrat, naturally.
Blockchain Possible Counter To Trolls Says Australian eSafety Commissioner
Last Updated: 28 January 2021
Julie Inman Grant stands as the eSafety Commissioner of Australia, and has recently made an interesting suggestion. Grant has speculated that an ID solution powered by blockchain could have the potential to tackle issues of trolling and cyber abuse, all the while still allowing users a certain level of anonymity.
Balancing Privacy With Control
Grant suggested this while doing an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, a media outlet of New South Wales. There, she explained that general online use finds great benefit from anonymity, but this causes a big problem in society where someone can just hide behind the Internet’s anonymity to harm others.
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On November 7 Philadelphia time, at the exact moment the US election was called for Joe Biden, President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani was giving a press conference at the Four Seasons – the landscaping store, not the luxury hotel.
He had his own version of history too: Trump had won, not Biden. And, on fringe corners of the internet, this alternative reality has been playing out ever since, fuelled by baseless and now thoroughly debunked claims of voter fraud as well as Trump s own false claims of victory.
Then, on January 6, the online mob broke out into real-world violence, storming the Capitol building to stop lawmakers from certifying Biden s win in a historic occupation that lasted four hours and left five people dead. Whipped up by Trump and Giuliani at a rally in Washington, rioters live-streamed and narrated their rampage on the very platforms on which they had organised, including alt-right favourites Parler, DLive and Gab