A FOI search by Senator Alex Antic has revealed that the government colluded with Big Tech to suppress and censor over 4,000 posts during the Covid Terror. (The Aussie Wire)

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So good morning, yes, governments oppress the people within their reach - isn't that their very nature? Isn't that their raison d'etre?

Yuyutsu

Your sarcasm is unbecoming. In my lifetime, governments did not censor Australians. Censorship was not a part of what used to be a good and free country; it is relatively new, and Australia is no longer a good and free country.

Having achieved same sex marriage; now blatant championing of sexual dysphoria, official agreement that people, including young children, can be something that they are obviously not, and go as far as subjecting themselves to surgical mutilation to 'achieve' what is a complete fantasy,some really bad people are now using censorship and fear to finish us off - with the help of a Prime Minister who proudly advised that he was going to change the country. In the short 12 months he has been in power, he has already well into doing so.

Covid was the perfect opportunity to test how much we valued our freedoms. We failed the test. We chose the fantasy of 'safety' over our freedoms. So, we let them get away with it - all but a few brave people, who were treated abominably, and still are being treated abominably, by the Fascist liaison of Big Business, Big Tech and Big Government.

The 4,123 Covid posts were lumped in with almost 9,000 terrorist related posts. Unbelievable in Australia? Well, not any more.

'Government' is an amorphous lump of elected drones, government departments and public servants; now assisted by virtue-signalling corporations, and sporting codes - who think that they know better than we do: at the moment how we should vote on the apartheid referendum.

It seems that the 'elected drones' are now the junior partners.

The separation of powers has gone down the drain, with a serving judge emailing an elected member of parliament, and haranguing the MP for speaking against the Voice!

Albanese said that he wanted to "change Australia". There are a lot of people who want to help him out - even if it is not the way he envisaged, nor a way he would approve of.

A governing body is necessary for our society, and we choose its members.
If they are of poor standard, that is our fault, and no one else's.
We need to apply greater diligence to the way we assess them, prior to voting?
I don't see that our present government unduly suppresses freedom of speech.
Instead, they exert a kind of censorship, so that inflammatory material is not thrown out in to the public arena.
There are some amongst us who are far too easily 'incensed' by such material.
We don't want those less than stable persons mounting uncalled for attacks on the instruments of our society?
Look at what happened in the good old US of A.