Justice Steven Rares today said the videos of Mr Shanks, better known as FriendlyJordies, constituted a "relentless and vicious campaign against Mr Barilaro".

He accepted the [now] retired politician was "traumatised" and said Google had failed to take responsibility for its conduct as a publisher.

Justice Rares noted Mr Shanks had called Mr Barilaro "disgusting" names and related him to the Mario brothers from Nintendo's video games.

"Although Mr Shanks styles himself as a comedian, his repeated use of such terms was not comedic," the judge said

"It was nothing less than racist hate speech."

  • discountsocialism [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Politicians have been attacking social media platforms for removing content. Google can now point to this ruling and say they are justified in doing it.