In the immediate aftermath of the Christchurch terror attacks in early 2019, the Australian government introduced the "Sharing Violent Vile Material" bill, which included hastily drafted legislation to criminalize websites and media platforms. offensive social media that did not escape the violent violent content in a "reasonable amount of time." "Rank of time.
Since then, Australian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have consistently blocked a total of 43 websites hosting or sharing the heinous content associated with the Christchurch attack, although the aforementioned bill is 39 times - no necessarily gave them the legal authority to do so.
As such, these ISPs have called for the establishment of laws and guidelines to protect them from any possible impacts of blocking these sites, and to benefit from the clear support of the government.
The government intervenes
Six months after the attack, Australian Electronic Security Commissioner Julie Inman Grant provided support to the government in the form of a direct order to continue to block eight of these sites; the rest of the original sites refused to remove hardware.
This is the first clear example of legal support for ISPs to block sites for these reasons, but it is not
Commissioner Inman Grant's office will be responsible for monitoring the eight blocked sites, all hosted outside of Australia, during the six-month ban, to determine if they agree to the takedown request and can therefore be locked down. gotten up.
The eight blocked websites have yet to be named, which will likely prevent them from attracting more attention. After the six-month ban and surveillance period, the sites will be subject to a thorough review and will likely be subject to a further ban if you don't settle for it.
Legislation in action
Commissioner Inman Grant, an AM member of ABC Radio, said his eSafety office has received 413 reports of malicious content online since heinous violent material was introduced.
"About 93% of this material comes from child sexual abuse that we eliminate under the other regulatory powers that we have," he said.
But for the remaining 7% that corresponds to the nature of the content covered by the invoice, so far five withdrawal notices have been issued, three of them have been met, but no lawsuit has been filed. 39, was still engaged.