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“It is unacceptable to treat the internet as an ungoverned space,” Australian PM calls for global tech scrutiny

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for a global crackdown on social media after the New Zealand mosque shooting was live-streamed on Facebook last week. "It is unacceptable to treat the internet as an ungoverned space," Morrison wrote in a letter to Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe, asking the issue to be on the agenda of the Osaka G20 Summit (scheduled for June). "It is imperative that the global community works together to ensure that technology firms meet their moral obligation to protect the communities which they serve and from which they profit," Morrison wrote. Morrison cited the 2017 Hamburg Statement on counter terrorism when G20 leaders committed to fight internet abuse for terrorism, including by working with the private sector to remove terrorist content, and provide "lawful and non-arbitrary access to available information for national security"..."The notion of law applying equally online as it does offline was an underlying principle..." Morrison wrote. According to him, technology companies need to meet these obligations: Countries need to work with and ensure that industry implements prevention measures including appropriate filtering, detection, and content removal people who "encourage, normalize, recruit, facilitate or commit terrorist or violent activities" The public is entitled to know in detail what tech companies are doing to monitor illegal and extremist content, the type of complaints received on such content, and how they manage such reports G20 leaders should work to ensure that there are "clear consequences" for those who carry out and/or abbett such "horrific acts" That…

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