Communications Minister PaulFletcherMP has spruiked the Morrison government’s ‘basic online safety expectations’ legislation after a graphic suicide clip was viewed and resent multiple times on Facebook and TikTok before being removed.
Communications Minister Paul Fletcher has spruiked the Morrison government’s ‘basic online safety expectations’ legislation after a graphic suicide clip was viewed and resent multiple times on Facebook and TikTok before being removed. Criticism was directed particularly at TikTok after the popular social media app failed to quickly detect and remove the inappropriate content from the platform, which used videos of animals to lure children into watching the clip.
The Communications Minister said the “video clearly violates the terms of use of Facebook, of TikTok and of any other social media platform”. “Let’s be clear, our government expects that social media platforms, be it TikTok, be it Facebook, be it Twitter … have systems in place in relation to the safety of material which their users are exposed to”. Mr Fletcher went on to flag a “new online safety act which takes our existing extensive protections and expands them”.
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