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Live streamed firing squad execution ‘absolutely disgusting’, says Watt
Labor cabinet minister, Murray Watt says a planned live streamed execution in the US would be extremely distressing for the public, but won’t commit to legislative change to prevent Australians being able to watch it.
I just find the idea of a public streaming of a firing squad execution absolutely disgusting. When I first heard that was being proposed, I couldn’t believe that it was real. I think all Australians would agree that this is a very distressing thing to have publicised …
We’ve seen now that the eSafety Commissioner has said they don’t have those powers. I wouldn’t want to commit to any legislative change at this point in time, but what I do think it shows is this rapidly evolving situation that we’ve got with technology, which is why our government is trying to take as much action as we can, as quickly as we can.”
Putting in place a duty of care on these big tech platforms is something that’s well and truly overdue.
And these big tech companies, social media platforms have been getting away with profiting off content that has been harmful, of technologies that have been designed to be deliberately addictive, even though they know the harm that that can do.
