Legislation to tackle online trolls may not be ‘workable’: Phair

Social media companies, including Facebook, could be forced to reveal the identities of anonymous users in an effort to crack down on online trolling and defamation. UNSW Canberra Institute for Cyber Security's Enterprise Director Nigel Phair says while the intent is good, the legislation may not be “workable”. “The intent, I think ... is good. We need to do something about the online environment and how people behave and what they do with their sensibilities,” Mr Phair told Sky News Australia. “But holistically, it's really not going to work, pretty much like every other piece of cybercrime legislation and related in this country.” He said it may be difficult for the average person to take action, questioning how they can make social media companies provide the names of users. “It's just really not going to work, the social media companies logically don't want this, they'll bog it down in courts, they're not going to want to ask their users to provide names, addresses, proper email addresses, proper phone numbers - on volume, it's not workable.”

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