John Barilaro

John Barilaro, former deputy premier of New South Wales is set to receive $715,000 in defamation damages from Google, as a result of videos posted by ...

Barilaro and Shanks settled a separate Federal Court case in November last year. He said the videos included “racial slurs”, in reference to his Italian heritage. The ruling this morning accepted Barilaro’s claim that he had been traumatised by the videos, and with Justic Steven Rares also assessing it as being a part of a “relentless and vicious campaign” against the former deputy premier, with Google failing to take action as the publisher of the content.

Former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro will receive a payout after he sued the tech giant for failing to remove defamatory videos on him on YouTube.

I'm 50, there's a next chapter." "Life's good. Outside court, Mr Barilaro said he felt vindicated and was happy it's "the end of the journey". The judge referred the conduct of Mr Shanks and Google to the Principal Registrar of the court to consider proceedings against them for "what appear to be serious contempts of court". Justice Steven Rares today said the videos of Mr Shanks, better known as FriendlyJordies, constituted a "relentless and vicious campaign against Mr Barilaro". - A Federal Court judge accepts Mr Barilaro was "traumatised" by the videos

The internet giant had conceded the former NSW deputy premier was defamed by two videos on the Friendlyjordies YouTube channel, offering no defences.

She said there had been an extreme level of aggravating conduct in the case, including Shanks selling a keychain depicting Barilaro as a scrotum. He said legislation “probably hasn’t kept up” with new media and “I think there’s some work to be done federally”. “The matters complained of drove Mr Barilaro prematurely from his chosen service in public life and traumatised him significantly,” Rares said. Rares observed that Shanks “was not to be quiet for long” and publicly mocked the settlement. As a result, Barilaro – who had planned to retire at the 2023 state election – stepped down in 2021. People in public life, like Mr Barilaro, must have broad backs and be prepared to face harsh criticism,” Rares said. “He called Mr Barilaro disgusting racist names, including a ‘greasy little scrotum’, [and a] ‘wog’ ... and repeatedly called Mr Barilaro corrupt. It could control whether or not they remained available on YouTube, yet it chose to do nothing.” On Monday, Justice Steven Rares said politics was not for the faint-hearted, but the videos about Barilaro were deeply offensive, racist and vilified him. The internet giant also maintained untenable defences until the trial began, and never apologised to Barilaro. The tech giant became a publisher of the videos in December 2020, when it refused to remove them. “But, as in most areas of life, nothing is absolute.

Former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro has been awarded a $715000 payout after a court found Google uploaded multiple videos mocking the politician's ...

“All I wanted at the outset was for Google to remove these videos and they refused. “It is necessary to award a substantial sum in damages to compensate Mr Barilaro for the harm Google caused to him and to vindicate his reputation.” I was hurt. I was broken. Through his lawyer, Mr Shanks last year apologised to Mr Barilaro for the “hurt” suffered from the offensive videos and reached a settlement deal, where Mr Shanks paid $100,000 in legal costs and made edits to the two videos that remain on YouTube. He told the court that Mr Barilaro could “expect to face robust public criticism” as a senior politician and was prepared to face harsh criticism.

A judge has ordered Google to pay $715000 defamation damages to former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro and referred Jordan Shanks for possible prosecution.

"In my opinion, it is necessary to award a substantial sum in damages to compensate Mr Barilaro for the harm that Google caused to him and to vindicate his reputation." The court also found Mr Shanks engaged in cyberbullying — trying to intimidate Mr Barilaro from bringing proceedings to court and to intimidate his lawyers from acting for him. In the videos, the court found Mr Shanks repeatedly and vindictively used descriptions of Mr Barilaro like "wog", "greasy", "greasy little scrotum", "meatball" and innuendos linking him to the Italian mafia.

An Australian court has ordered Google to pay John Barilaro $515000 in defamation damages after two videos posted on YouTube drove him to quit politics ...

The videos label the then deputy premier of New South Wales as a corrupt con man without evidence, and call him racist names that were “nothing less than hate speech,” the judge said. “It was never about money. Those and other videos by Shanks also accuse Barilaro of committing perjury nine times, engaging in blackmail, and having an extramarital affair.

The video's were made by comedian Jordan Shanks (Pictured) and published under the friendlyjordies banner in September and October 2020, and Barilaro took ...

It was nothing less than racist hate speech.” Justice Steven Rares said the videos constituted a “relentless and vicious campaign against Mr Barilaro” adding that “Although Mr Shanks styles himself as a comedian, his repeated use of such terms was not comedic. The video’s were made by comedian Jordan Shanks (Pictured) and published under the friendlyjordies banner in September and October 2020, and Barilaro took action against Google for its failure to remove the videos despite consistent requests to take them down.