Just my assumption, couldnāt answer that definitively. Iām guessing that, like GDPR in the EU, it will apply to any and all social media website on the internet, but for practical reasons, canāt really be enforced outside of the legislating authoritiesā jurisdiction. I mean, Cuba, for instance, could fine you at any time if they had laws permitting for it, but if youāve never been, and never intend to go to Cuba, it doesnāt really do very much
Going back to the real world, Iām doubtful foreign websites hosted outside of Australia, by non Australians, would ever be āprosecutedā, itās just a huge waste of time. Maybe any countries we have close relationships with would do our dirty work for us. I assume that this would apply to any Australian or any Australian company or any Australian server. Just my non professional assumption though, could be totally wrong!
Iām guessing that, like GDPR in the EU, it will apply to any and all social media website on the internet, but for practical reasons, canāt really be enforced outside of the legislating authoritiesā jurisdiction.
The legislation specifically gives the Act extra-territorial powers to enforce the ban against foreign websites.
Reddit is specifically targetted ; it will definitely include Lemmy.
One possibility is the Brazilian way to do law enforcement: blocking the domain and server IP addresses through ISPs.
Here in Brazil, a Supreme Court minister has ruled on several occasions to block certain websites and services, the most recent being X/Twitter. Along with his decision to block these websites, he also imposed fines on those caught using VPNs to bypass ISP blocking. Although VPN traffic is encrypted and impossible for governments to monitor, somehow this worked because several people were fined. It is likely that Supreme Court agents monitored these networks in order to detect possible Brazilians using them during such blockages. An Australian should expect their government to proceed in a similar fashion.
(Just for clarification, Iām not going into the merits of this, just stating that this is technically possible and that there is a precedent in the government of a country, in aforementioned case, Brazil. Whether this is good or bad will depend on many factors)
