Prime Minister Scott Morrison is threatening Australian staff at social media companies with jail time, but cyber experts say he's targeting the wrong people.
Social media executives based in Australia could face jail time for failing to remove extremist video content under new laws proposed by the government in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings.
"We want to same rules to apply in the online social media world that exist in the physical world," Mr Morrison told reporters on Tuesday. "The penalty is only for Australian domiciled executives and on the whole they're marketing executives, not those responsible for running and maintaining the platform," Mr Phair told SBS News.
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