Canberra – Australia’s prime minister has urged world leaders to crack down on social media companies that broadcast terrorist attacks in the aftermath of the New Zealand mosque shootings.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has written to G-20 chairman Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe calling for agreement on “clear consequences” for companies whose platforms are used to facilitate and normalize horrific acts.
Australian Brenton Tarrant has been charged with murder over the attack on two mosques in Christchurch that killed 50 people and left another 50 injured.
The attacks were live-streamed on Facebook.
Morrison says: “Social media companies are international businesses and it’s up to the international community to force them to act.”
Not enough. You need to ban Nazis from social media in the first place. We need to start labeling white supremacist extremisits as we do with radical Islam. They are terrorist organizations. What’s so hard to label Nazis as terrorists? Yes they’d be on no fly lists,banned from social media, on watch lists etc.. . White supremacy like black pride is ok but when they are radical they are not ok and should be banned. Govt needs to monitor free speech
We can’t have that here because of the 1st Amendment.