Troll Morrison to end trolling?

Tuesday, 30 November 2021

On Sunday, the Morrison government issued a chest-beating media release promising new court powers to force social media giants to “unmask” anonymous trolls who make defamatory comments online.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is not so much Australia’s answer to online trolling as he is a political example of it.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.