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The government's planned 'anti-troll' laws won't help most victims of online trolling

  • Written by: Jennifer Beckett, Lecturer in Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne
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Yesterday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Attorney-General Michaelia Cash announced proposed new legislation aimed at making online “trolls” accountable for their actions.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve heard Morrison decry trolls as “cowardly” and “un-Australian”, language that made it into...

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