Meanwhile the “think of the children” Australian government is hands off on any enterprise run by the gambling industry. So much for the wishes of the Labor rank and file to kick gambling influence out of the party. The parliamentary parties allegiances are clear. Do whatever US intelligence and the tech companies say about age verification. Do whatever the mining industry says. Do whatever the surveillance industry says. Do whatever the gambling industry says. Piss weak for a government with a huge majority.
France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death
Submitted 20 hours ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to australia@aussie.zone
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shirro@aussie.zone 18 hours ago
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 16 hours ago
A government can only go against lobbyist interests (and especially American interests) if they have the opposition on-side. Labor, to this day, has a long history of being couped and they’ve learned cowardice as a result.
Whitlam, Rudd, Fyles, Palaszczuk.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 14 hours ago
Rudd
Rudd did it to himself by being pigheaded and refusing to go far enough.
Palaszczuk never really did anything stand-out brave. Her government lost because of the natural churn that comes with having been in power for 8 years, and because of global trends favouring oppositions.
Whitlam is definitely a good example. So would be Shorten, even though it was a bold platform from opposition that lost him a seemingly-unlosable election, rather than losing Government for bold actually-enacted policy.
I won’t comment on Fyles. I’m not nearly familiar enough with NT politics to say anything intelligent.
Salvo@aussie.zone 16 hours ago
The reason why Labor ended up with such a huge majority was that the Liberal (and National) Party’s platform was all about Green-bashing and Orange Man Idolatry, while the Greens were all about hippy-dippy bullshit.
Greens voters went with Labor because their own parties policies weren’t perceived as realistic enough and LNP voters went with Labor to protest the Trumpian behaviour of the LNP.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
The greens got more votes in the last election than the one prior, and their overall percentage remained unchanged. The greens lost out because the liberals preferenced Labor over them, and so a large amount of the swing away from the liberals ended up in Labor’s lap both directly and through preferences
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 16 hours ago
I voted against the Greens because their behavior voting against the HAAF was straight-up psychotic. They were throwing the homeless under the bus for headlines and renters.
John_Howard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
never knew kick was australian
Zagorath@aussie.zone 14 hours ago
Yeah same. I find it a little weird that none of the talk about it has ever mentioned it’s Australian until this incident.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
ABN lookup indicates it’s registered in Melbourne CBD.
dumbass@leminal.space 16 hours ago
Huh, I thought kick was a us company, I hope they’re gonna go after the cunts that did this to him as well, they’re more to blame than kick, even tho kick should have ended the stream, those adults knew what they were doing
FireWire400@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
That’s actually what I’m wondering about, every article seems about the platform it happened on rather than the people involved (apart from the victim of course)
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Everyone seems to be missing the important part which was buried deep in the article.
An autopsy showed Mr Graven did not die from impact trauma and that the probable causes of death appeared to be medical or toxicological in origin.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
There was already a criminal investigation ongoing and his tragic death happened in the meantime, amplifying the media coverage of this case that was only reported by independent media until now.
DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 20 hours ago
Surely the fellow streamers are mostly responsible
naught101@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
If platforms are providing affordances for abuse and profiting off it, then they are too.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Obviously I’m really old and way out of touch on this, but I find this abhorrent.
Why is this a thing? Watching someone be abused hasn’t been socially acceptable entertainment for a long time. Suddenly it is again?
That seems like quite an understatement to me. I’d say they’re actively avoiding acknowledging this content.
PDFuego@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
As far as I know (might be wrong) Kick was made for streamers who have been kicked off other platforms. It’s another one of these sites with “relaxed moderation” which cater specifically to assholes who aren’t welcome elsewhere.