NSW Premier Welcomes Online Censorship, but Think Tank Asks ‘What’s Next?’

The premier of New South Wales (NSW)—site of both the Bondi massacre and a stabbing at a church in the past week—has welcomed Commonwealth government moves to prevent social media firms from hosting content depicting either incident. However, the Melbourne-based think tank Institute for Public Affairs (IPA) has warned that the sweeping powers of the eSafety commissioner need to be constrained. Premier Chris Minns said platforms “need to be held to account” for spreading misinformation. “If the Commonwealth government is pursuing tougher penalties, increased fines [or] sanctions to be put in place, we would welcome it,” he said. Following the stabbings at the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd Church, a riot occurred outside after people who had been watching a live stream of the sermon began posting the stabbing incident on social media....