Facebook Might Quit Australia

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The prime minister of Australia, Scott Morrison has taken the bull by its horns, by challenging Facebook Inc to back the anti-troll defamation law. But there are chanced that Facebook will quit Australia at together. If this happens, then Morrison says that if the social media giant does so, over laws holding it liable for defamation on its platform, it shows that they have no interest in making the online world safe.

The global social media companies have threatened to quit Australia early this year in a discussion over laws making them pay media outlets for content appearing on their websites.

Australian government wants that global internet companies to share the identity of the people with anonymous accounts, in case there is a charge of defamation on such account by other person. The purpose is to bring the internet companies accountable for the content on their platforms. Failure to provide the required information, it must assume legal liability. The proposal is also to make social media operators legally responsible for defamatory comments beneath publishers' posts on their platforms.

During a TV interview, Scott Morrison was asked if he was worried Facebook might quit Australia over the new law. He commented doing that "would be an admission that they have no interest in making the online world safe". PM further commented that “It was not free speech "to hide in your basement as a masked troll and abuse and harass and stalk people. If you want to say something, then you should say who you are, and if the social media company lets you do that with a mask on, then we'll hold them to account."

When approached, a Facebook spokesperson declined to comment. Facebook has shared initially that it could not reasonably be expected to monitor all comments on its website for defamation, and that it often has less access to users' pages than the users themselves.

When approached the representatives from other companies Twitter Inc and YouTube, which is owned by Alphabet Inc's Google, declined to comment.

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