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.”
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