Australia's federal government has been pushing for new ‘anti-trolling legislation’ that would see defamation liability shift from owners of social media pages onto social media platforms as it believes the legislative changes would go a long way towards reducing online harm, but the Labor party...
The NSW Supreme Court has issued a global injunction enjoining overseas defendants to remove tweets of a corporate leaker … Sydney University media law academic Michael Douglas reviews the case, and the injunction. From Inforrm.
On September 18, 2017, far-right website Gab.ai published a letter it received from its domain registrar ASIA Registry, in which it warned the website that it would cancel its domain name on September 23, 2017 for violations of the anti-discriminatory laws of Australia, where ASIA Registry is...
Recently, the Court of Appeal of New Zealand decided Christopher Robert Murray And Ors v Ian Wishart and ruled that a third party publisher - the owner of a Facebook page that contained comments by others - was not liable for defamation without actual knowledge, overturning a previous 'ought to have...