{"id":5933,"date":"2022-06-08T07:36:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/08\/powerful-us-laws-could-shield-google-from-paying-john-barilaro-defamation-damages-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T07:36:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:36:56","slug":"powerful-us-laws-could-shield-google-from-paying-john-barilaro-defamation-damages-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/08\/powerful-us-laws-could-shield-google-from-paying-john-barilaro-defamation-damages-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Powerful\u2019 US laws could shield Google from paying John Barilaro defamation damages, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant was ordered to pay $715,000 over YouTube videos but academics say courts may struggle to enforce it<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/australian-news-live\/latest\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australian courts may not be able to enforce an order that Google pay John Barilaro more than $700,000 in defamation damages because of free speech protections in US law, legal academics say.<\/p>\n<p>Google, the owner of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/youtube\"> YouTube<\/a>, was on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/jun\/06\/google-ordered-to-pay-john-barilaro-715000-over-friendlyjordies-youtube-videos\">ordered to pay<\/a> the former New South Wales deputy premier aggravated damages over a series of defamatory \u201cracist\u201d and \u201cabusive\u201d videos published on the YouTube channel Friendlyjordies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jun\/08\/powerful-us-laws-could-shield-google-from-paying-john-barilaro-defamation-damages-experts-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c0def2763a3103c7ee5a2438c9d6450c244d2f42\/0_133_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=96228bbeea5df71743eaf96e9a758e37\" title=\"\u2018Powerful\u2019 US laws could shield Google from paying John Barilaro defamation damages, experts say\" \/>Tech giant was ordered to pay $715,000 over YouTube videos but academics say courts may struggle to enforce it<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<br \/>\nGet our free news app; get our morning email briefing<\/p>\n<p>Australian courts may not be able to enforce an order that Google pay John Barilaro more than $700,000 in defamation damages because of free speech protections in US law, legal academics say.<br \/>\nGoogle, the owner of YouTube, was on Monday ordered to pay the former New South Wales deputy premier aggravated damages over a series of defamatory \u201cracist\u201d and \u201cabusive\u201d videos published on the YouTube channel Friendlyjordies. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant was ordered to pay $715,000 over YouTube videos but academics say courts may struggle to enforce it Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Australian courts may not be able to enforce an order that Google pay John Barilaro more &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/08\/powerful-us-laws-could-shield-google-from-paying-john-barilaro-defamation-damages-experts-say\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Powerful\u2019 US laws could shield Google from paying John Barilaro defamation damages, experts say<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}