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Comment on Not something urgent, but the Aussie parliament passed new laws yesterday and it could impact Lemmy.world (in a year)

chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Here’s a link to the text of the legislation.

From what I understand they define it very broadly:

(i) the sole purpose, or a significant purpose, of the service is to enable online social interaction between 2 or more end-users;

(ii) the service allows end-users to link to, or interact with, some or all of the other end-users;

(iii) the service allows end-users to post material on the service;

(iv) such other conditions (if any) as are set out in the legislative rules; or (b) an electronic service specified in the legislative rules;

So basically everything Web 2.0 - ish that they haven’t given an explicit exception to. Lemmy totally qualifies.

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TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
By those definitions any newspaper website with comments is social media. The sole purpose (or main purpose) of a Lemmy instance is to aggregate links, the comments are secondary (just like in newspaper websites). The definition is too vague and if you apply it to the letter it would include 99% of websites, even porn websites have comments these days.

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- Kelly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  The sole purpose (or main purpose) of a Lemmy instance is to aggregate links
  
  We call them “link posts” and I think they may qualify as posts under this broad definition.
  
  For the purposes of this Act, material is posted on a social media service, relevant electronic service or designated internet service by an end - user if the end - user causes the material to be accessible to, or delivered to, one or more other end - users using the service.
  
  www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/…/s11.html
  
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- chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  The definition is too vague and if you apply it to the letter it would include 99% of websites
  
  I think that is their intention
  
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