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> If the social media companies fails to do so then THEY will be liable for the defamation.

How do they collect if the company isn’t even inside Australia? What if it’s not a company at all and all identities are private (i.e. decentralized)? Or are they trying to make these kinds of services illegal?

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> How do they collect if the company isn’t even inside Australia?

For companies with a legal or property presence (essentially all large ones like Facebook or Twitter) that the civil Australian courts could get to, it's pretty easy to compel them to do something.

Ok, but hypothesizing a future where a social media platform is not holding a legal or property presence in Australia, I fail to see how they can enforce it without censorship. And a future in which that platform is fully decentralized and potentially even uncensorable, they’re going to do what, outlaw math? Firewall themselves off from the rest of the world? I know they’re already trying on the former. They’re going to be in for a rough awakening when they realize they’re shutting the door on an economic revolution.

they might not care if they (the politicians) are still being feed while the rest of australia starves. look at north korea, the regime is well feed, but also they have contracts with china so that might be why, i couldn’t see australia (a free nation) siding with china, russia, north korea or any other authoritarian government for support in the future but crazier things have happened. history has a ton of examples of that.

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