Inman Grant, who once worked for Twitter, gave the company 28 days to show it was serious about tackling the problem or face fines of 700,000 Australian dollars ($476,000) for every day it missed the deadline.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/6/22/australia-gives-twitter-28-days-to-sort-out-toxicity-and-hate
Nothing.
That’s the point.
If you don’t want to operate under the laws of a country, you don’t have to do business there.
You do want to run a business there? Then you do have to follow the local laws.
If it costs more (either in money or ideology) for Twitter to comply with this law than Aus brings in revenue, the smart move would be to block all Aus IPs from twitter.
But smart move is not how I would describe any of twitter’s actions in the past few months.
The smart move would be for Australia to make it own Twitter… with blackjack… And hookers.
So an official government Mastadon instance like the EU has?
Interesting, I had no idea they had one till now.
Let’s hope they decide to close down Europe access in August too
I hope they don’t let the door hit them on the way out.
I kind of hope it does, actually.