Under the Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Bill 2019 it’s now a criminal act for an ISP, CDN or hosting provider to allow someone to access violent content.

What’s next? Holding Australia Post and OfficeWorks criminally liable for pamphlets people print out and send in the mail or civil engineering firms liable for bill posters people stick to the sides of underpasses!

We don’t want OfficeWorks deciding what people can print, Australia Post inspecting every item of mail or local engineering firms folding or moving to another country but that’s exactly what this poorly thought through law is going to do to Internet companies if it’s not amended or, better yet, repealed!