Of course the censoring types want to do more censorship: the censoring types being politicians and the 2.5 million bureaucrats beavering away, in secret, pulling the politicians' strings.

The Left and the pretend Right are uniting around censorship and digital ID just as they were with the Covid lockdowns, useless vaccines, and the removal of human rights.

The American import, ridiculously named e safety Commissioner, is looking like Public Enemy Number One, but she is just the front for Australians’ real enemies, their own political class.

Our only protection against the all-the-same politicians will come only from very rich people like Elon Musk, who can afford to stand up to them.

Squeaky Albanese's description of Musk as ‘arrogant’ is a joke; we all know who's really arrogant.

Australians are just getting what they voted for.

Peter Dutton has indicated that he will support the legislation giving the Australian Communications and Media Authority the power to intervene with social media platforms and content providers who disseminate what is deemed disinformation.

What do those still rusted onto the Liberals think about that?

The digital ID Bill was bullied through the Senate. Nothing from Peter Dutton about that. He doesn't have the numbers in the lower house, but some flapping of his wings wouldn't have hurt. It might even have convinced some people that the Liberal Party was still worth voting for. It isn't, of course, but it's the only chance of getting rid of the worst government since Federation: the ultra-Left Albanese abomination. That would at least give Australians the chance to wake up and think about who they are really putting into their Parliament.

While Squeaky is chuntering on about Musk “using his billionaire's dollars” to fight his censorship watchdog, remember that Squeaky himself is using OUR dollars to oppress us and what we can say, hear and see.

Disagree.

We do not need thought police or becoming a police state that decides what one can say or think.

And clearly, some clergy have earned this imagery! Plus, a bomb in their pantaloons.

We have freedom of speech and freedom of the press. We are not Russia China or Turkey we those freedoms are supressed by Dictators!

Freedom of expression and or the press is an essential in any liberal, bona fide democracy and the limiting/suppression of those freedoms a prelude to dictatorship!

Stick it where the sun doesn't shine Binroy.
Alan B.

All it is, is sending sequences of electric 0's and 1's down a wire.
Governments should neither support and encourage nor disrupt or give any importance or formal recognition to that crazy hobby of people.

And BTW, those who really want to communicate any information between them can do so regardless, the "dark web" being just one protocol they could use and even if that is taken off, innumerable other communication protocols can still be designed and remain obscure over the basic protocols, TCP/IP and UDP/IP, on top of what now has been nicknamed "internet" but has in fact existed since the late 1970's, long before given that name.

ASIO and the AFP have now put their oars in, saying that keeping everyone "safe" from the big, bad internet is "reasonable". 'Safe' in Australia now means 'ignorant' of what the government is up to.

Dear Ttbn,

«'Safe' in Australia now means 'ignorant' of what the government is up to.»

'Safe' in Australia means safe for the regime, not for the people, ensuring that nothing can overthrow them.

Governments are terrorist organisations and understandably they do whatever they can to make sure that they remain the only gang in town.