Defamation Down Under
The Lawfare Podcast
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What Are the Concerns About Chilling Effects?
Facebook has created the option to turn off comments to posts. Presumably some meting companies will use it, which then limits the amount of public engagement with new stories. In australia, we've already started to see chilling effects happen, as recently as last week. And it's not just meteor outlets which have allowed their speech to be chilled. The premier of tasmania put on his facebook that into the future, there'll be comments that are closed for most things, unless the story is sort of fairly benal or benign. So we're already starting to see not only news outlets, but also public figures start to regulate the way in which they at with wisebork as a
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