Big Tech Decries Australia S Anti Trolling Bill For Not Allowing Innocent Dissemination Defence
The innocent dissemination defence allows entities, such as social media platforms, to not be liable for defamation if they had no knowledge of the defamatory material, and their failure to detect the material was not due to negligence. The proposed legislation, Social Media (Anti-Trolling) Bill 2022, is currently being considered by Parliament and, among other things, is seeking to remove the right of social media platforms to use the innocent dissemination defence for potentially defamatory material posted by users based in Australia....