Traditional television companies have also come under scrutiny over their handling of the footage, with several complaints received by the regulator.

'It is tragic it has taken something of this scale to get people to notice,' he said. 'If the idea of being famous among the hard right racist supremacist mob is the goal, then nothing comes close to livestreaming on Facebook for an instant non-editorial non-checkable method,' he said. It’s unclear whether there will be another inquiry into the social media giants on this topic as Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims said the terms were very broad but the 'appalling livestream is under a different heading'.ĭavid Vaile, co-convenor of UNSW’s Cyberspace Law and Policy Community and Australian Privacy Foundation chairman, said this was a 'tragic and inevitable result' of social media giants not being held to account in the past.