Australia's eSafety website claims to be the “world's first government agency dedicated to keeping people safe online”; giving people incapable of looking after themselves “a more positive online experience”.

Another “first” that some politicians love to crow about.

The head censor is American-born Julie Inman Grant, who has well and truly over-reached by thinking that an Australian public servant can dictate, on Australian taxpayer dollars, what a global organisation - X - can or cannot do.

Our new Big Sister is very keen to be part of a global attack on freedom of speech and association down the track, though. She is at work with a group calling itself ‘Global Online Safety Regulators Network’, made up of countries such as, Australia, France, Ireland, South Africa, Korea,UK, and Fiji ( ! ).

Big Sister (Inman Grant) has bragged to that fine bastion of democracy , the World Economic Forum, that “We have a big stick” that can be used to regulate in ways that “they don’t want to be regulated”.

Disgustingly, Big Sister used to work for Twitter, where she actually campaigned AGAINST what she is doing now. Perhaps her next move will be to Communist China.

The content that an Australian court fell over itself to take down while Sis winds up, is still on Facebook, making this look like a personal war against Elon Musk.

Big Sister and Albanese are out to remove our basic rights, as part of the latter’s vow to ‘change Australia’.

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/free-speech/2024/04/what-julie-inman-grant-has-in-store-for-you/

She's now gotten herself the nickname eKaren.
(She isn't going to be able to live that one down, it's going to stick)
- There's even a song written for her already.
You can find the link to the song (first link at the top) and some other funny memes in my last comment on the main forum.
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=22939&page=0#395159

Dear Ttbn,

«Big Sister and Albanese are out to remove our basic rights»

As long as you think of your natural freedoms as "rights", those who gave you these rights have every right to take them back.

Your God-given freedoms, only God can take back!

"The content that an Australian court fell over itself to take down while Sis winds up, is still on Facebook, making this look like a personal war against Elon Musk."

Interesting that she apparently used to work for Twitter previously.
Maybe she was part of a team controlling the information there on the governments behalf prior to Elon Musks purchase, and afterwards formed this 'Global Online Safety Regulators Network' to counter Twitters move towards more free and fairer speech policies and have greater control over content viewers / citizens can share and access.

AC

I was pleased to see somewhere the eCommissar described as an eKaren. Somewhat insulting, but we are - or should be - fighting for freedom of speech here. And this woman, and the two main political parties are our enemies. The gloves need to be off. The small parties and independents need to start really hammering this totalitarianism, and showing Australians they they are worth voting for.

Dutton supports Labor’s censorship binge. The Liberals are unelectable. Both parties had a considerable drop in their primary votes. Labor is predicted to be in a minority, reliant on the Greens.

It's time for Australian voters to hit the red button.

Benjamin Franklin: "In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scare call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by SUBDUING THE FREENESS OF SPEECH".

The CEO of Rumble says that he is getting increasing demands for censorship from authorities in Australia and New Zealand. He has noticed a dramatic increase in global censorship. (Epoch Times)

Further, Big Sister is reported as saying that, “If they fail to remove the content, then we can go to search engines such as Google or Bing to really minimise the amount of content that Australians can see”. The woman is actually threatening to MINIMISE WHAT WE CAN SEE.

Can this really be happening outside of Communist China and other totalitarian countries!

Perhaps Australia is already totalitarian, and we just haven't woken up to it yet. Perhaps that's why the government doesn't think it's worthwhile attending to Australia's defence. Perhaps they have other plans.

I don't use X myself, but apparently Musk tweeted that, “The recent attacks in Australia are a horrific assault on free society. Our condolences go out to those who have been affected, and we stand with the Australian people in calling for those responsible to be brought to justice”.

Amazingly, one of Albanese’s henchmen in my own state, the Health Minister, Mark Butler, said that the government would not be bullied by Mr Musk or any other tech billionaire.

I think we all know who the real bullies are, thank you very much Mr. Butler: your government and your esafety Commissar. You are the ones trying to tell 26 million people what they can say and what they can read or watch. How bloody dare you!

Albanese squeals about “the dangerous implications that can occur when things that are simply not true” (are broadcast).

Well, that didn't worry him when things that were definitely not true were bandied about during Covid.

At the beginning of this year Julie Inman Grant was described as the “most dangerous woman” to turn up at Davos (WEF); one who creates a “moral panic” for her to solve a non-existent problem, at a cost of $51.2 million p.a to Australian taxpayers.

Dear Ttbn,

«The woman is actually threatening to MINIMISE WHAT WE CAN SEE.»

She only obeys orders, doing what she was paid to do.

Eventually they will realise that the best way to minimise what we can see is to pluck out our eyes - they surely would like to pluck mine out.

«Perhaps Australia is already totalitarian, and we just haven't woken up to it yet.»

"we"? I was 2 years old when I have woken to that fact. Well, it happened not to be Australia but all states are like this, it was never different, only the decorations.

Yuyutsu,

Is she only obeying orders? Albanese is not one for giving orders: he lets his Ministers have full rein, and all politicians take ‘advice’ from bureaucrats. Politicians keep an arm's length from the action, deliver the message, and like to blame others when things go pear shape. I posted elsewhere recently on the comments of someone near to the action that, these days, unelected bureaucrats do the governing. ‘Government by the bureaucrats for the bureaucrats’.

You give politicians credit for intelligence and qualifications they don’t have; they come and go, but the bureaucrats remain.

What you thought you knew as a toddler, was not what happened here. You might have been born a cynic, but I was not; and I assure you that Australia's downfall is relatively recent. I'm grateful that I have spent most of my life in what Australia used to be.

Hi ttbn,

It's kind of sad you know.
A lot of the things I've waffled on about over the years, well the average person might've seen me a little nutty...

Sad part about it all, is I haven't really been very far off the mark with many of my doom and gloom comments about the state of the countries affairs and its politicians over the years.

We may not always agree on everything, but I support your right to say whatever you feel you need to.

"Dutton supports Labor’s censorship binge. The Liberals are unelectable."
- Probably supports high immigration, and any number of other leftish policies as well.

I said this before over on the other thread:

'- When Australians were made to feel like right-wing terrorists just for displaying the Australian flag.
And the flip side of that is that many of those once proud flag-waving Aussies, well they don't feel much want to wave the flag anymore, - because this country is not the country it once was when they were proud to wave it. A small handful still do, maybe more out of defiance than anything.'

Think about that, what the feck did they do to this country?
What were / are the consequences of that?

A neutered nation. Maybe.
But many have just been indoctrinated to be something else now.
They see us as the enemy.

How in the hell do we fix this?

“If they fail to remove the content, then we can go to search engines such as Google or Bing to really minimise the amount of content that Australians can see”
Yes, I saw her say that in a X post somewhere today; here
http://twitter.com/thomasjreid/status/1781285890486399048.

"Amazingly, one of Albanese’s henchmen in my own state, the Health Minister, Mark Butler, said that the government would not be bullied by Mr Musk or any other tech billionaire."

How is Musk 'the bully', what is he demanding?
It's the government making the demands.

I said it the other day, our leaders are all fanatics

"Albanese squeals about 'the dangerous implications that can occur when things that are simply not true' (are broadcast)."

Like he didn't spend a fortune on a referendum trying to convince us to support something he didn't want to share the details of.
He was inviting fear and conjecture from the Australian public with a half-baked plan such as that.

The guy must be some kind of extremely low IQ imbecile to actually think we'd go for that, and then to say that afterwards (quoted above) well I'm just not sure of the blokes intelligence or self awareness. How does he say that after his failed voice, another sellout of our soverignty?

His plan to push through the Voice and screw the nation over...
This probably isn't even his revenge against the Australian public, and I see him as being petty and spiteful enough a person to do it.
He's such a sellout he probably planned to do do this anyway as well.

According to the Attorney-General's website, the right
to freedom of expression extends to any medium, including
written and oral communications, the media, public protest,
broadcasting, artistic works and even commercial advertising.

However, we're told that the right is not absolute. That it
carries with it special responsibilities and may be restricted
on several grounds.

For example, we're told that restrictions could relate to
filtering access to certain internet sites, the urging of
violence, or the classification of artistic material.

We regularly hear news reports of people (old and young),
being scammed, viciously attacked, and bullied. Of
people seeking help, in dealing with violent or
distressing online content - some even committing suicide.

The government's appointment of Julie Inman Grant as
Australia's eSafety Commissioner may just be an attempt to
try to solve the existing problem of dealing with violent
or distressing online content.

Julie Inman Grant we're told is Australia's eSafety
Commissioner. That she leads the world's first government
regulatory agency commissioned to keeping its citizens safe
online.

We're told she has extensive experience in the non-profit
government sections and has spent 2 decades working in
senior public policy and safety roles in the tech industry at
Microsoft, twitter, and Adobe.

There's more at the following link:

http://esafety.gov.au/about-us/who-we-are/about-the-commissioner

AC

I agree with every thing you say about Albanese. He is the worst PM ever, incapable of leading the worst government since Federation.

The really bad news is that the Opposition and its leader are not much better; and, no matter how we vote, evil bureaucrats like Big Sister will always be there pulling strings.

What exactly is the government trying to hide here? Do they truly care that Australians might be exposed to violent content? I don't know how many here have seen the actual banned footage, but its rather tame - the sort of thing you'd find 20 times a night on the usual cop show extravaganza that is commercial TV. Struth, you can go onto YouTube right now and watch a bloke get his head blown off... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdwVUBlK-Y0&rco=1

So are they trying to suppress the violence?

No, they are trying to suppress the visual evidence of the failure of the great multiculturalism experiment. They are trying to keep a lid on the ethnic unrest that emanates from those who see violence as a fair debating point. That's why both sides of politics are supporting the censorship - because both sides supported the multicultural experiment and need to suppress the evidence of its failure.

Australians have shown that they'll supinely accept censorship and authoritarian anti-democratic enforcement - eg the lockdowns. But now we are trying to impose that on the rest of the world and the defenders of freedom who won't supinely accept censorship are fighting back.

The sheer arrogance of unelected and unrepresentative censors to think that they can decide what the rest of the world is allowed to see is breathe-taking. How disconnected from reality are these people?

Imagine if the CCP decided it didn't want its citizens to ever see evidence of the Tiananmen massacre and to ensure no Chinese with a VPN was similarly censored, that the entire planet had remove all such content from the WWW. Would the fascists of the left be good with that?

Sadly, probably, they would.

The Dutton Liberals are on the same side as Labor and the loony Left on censorship. They love their Big Sister.

The polls now have Dutton at 45% to 37% for Albanese.

Just because Dutton isn't Albanese.

What a sorry state Australia is in. Disastrous.

The Liberal Party has torched its chances of election, and Australia's chances of pulling out of the downward spin into totalitarianism.

The UAP Senator Ralph Babet and One Nation are the only ones standing up for freedom and opposing an imported public ‘servant’. But, the majority of Australians apparently prefer slavery to voting for them, having been brainwashed into thinking that anything not loony Left is ‘far right’.

mhaze,

Good onya.

Eight year olds today have
FACEBOOK, TWITTER, IPHONE and IPOD.
When I was 8 I had a colouring book,
crayons, and an imagination.

I didn't need eSafety. But perhaps today's
kids do?

Mhaze took us back to the horrors of Covid mismanagement as the tipping point when Australians showed how "supine" they had become; how accepting they were of undemocratic lockdowns and removal of human rights.

That period in our history will go down as the turning point when the political class, elected and unelected, found that they could get away with ruling Australians, not serving them.

And, it also reminds us of the truism that people deserve the governments they vote for. They showed a bit of courage in turning away from the main parties, but too many of them gave their first preference to the Greens, and look how that turned out: nincompoops with less than a third of the vote propped by our version of Communists.

Tony Abbott, still naively thinking that the Liberals would save us (more women will get them back on the track, he thinks), recently said:

“A majority that stays silent does not long remain a majority. Too many Australians have been quiet for too long, either through politeness or lack of conviction”.

True. But it is also true that there has been no majority or, at least, the majority has been worn down since multiculturalism, cultural relativism, race-based grouping, self-hatred - you name it: if it's bad, we have it.

Maoist-style grouping has left us ripe for totalitarianism.

Enter Big Sister - for starters.

Isn't it time for the technology industry to take
a lead from the car industry and start prioritizing
safety so that every online experience that people take
is a safe one?

We know that cars today are equipped with safety features.
From seat-belts, rear-view cameras, parking and crash
sensors. Surely Australian adults expect tech companies to
take responsibility for their online safety. According to
the research done by banks - we're told that eSafety is not
alone in calling for this.

Dear Foxy,

I have no objection that those who prioritise online safety organise themselves and create a body, call it "government" or by any other name, that will do its best to provide them with technological and administrative solutions for having as-safe-as-possible online experiences.

But why impose their preferences on the rest of us and threaten our freedom to communicate with each other?

«We know that cars today are equipped with safety features.
From seat-belts, rear-view cameras, parking and crash
sensors.»

Disgusting indeed, that is why I only use old cars. It is also, for example, why I am prevented from having an electric vehicle.

My ideal car would be from around the 1970's (yet I don't mind what powers it), but unfortunately they now get too rusty.

You know, when safety belts were invented and came onto the market, my parents were excited about it and bought it for our family car. It was not a legal requirement and we didn't need anyone to tell us to do so, it just made sense to have them!

«Surely Australian adults expect tech companies to
take responsibility for their online safety.»

Some do - I certainly don't.
I don't want tech companies to interfere with my essential means of transportation: while I don't mind safety mechanisms, I want a vehicle, not a computer. Computers and similar electronic gadgets are limited to one room in my home, and should stay right there (and it is from this room that I am now typing). I went to great lengths to disable some electronic components in my car just so I don't have to carry electronic chips (inside the car keys) while I am out and about outside this room.

It seems to me that Albanese and his hysterical censors (now including the Liberal Party) are more concerned about videos of acts than they are concerned about the acts themselves.

Perhaps they could use the time and effort they are putting into outrage finding ways to prevent the actual acts rather than trying to hide from us the horrors of what is going on, and what we should be alerted to.

Here's what one Yank thinks about Australian censorship:

https://youtu.be/iKqdDSZy46E?si=_JPnlSo0BU9jC9IZ

Hi Foxy

8 year olds are playing Roblox.
Parents purchase cards that give online game credits 'Robux', that are used to play certain games and buy premium content, like items for your character / avatar.
They learn pretty quickly about trusting people they don't know and being scammed, because other kids (even adults posing as kids) will try to scam them out of their premium content items.

A little bit older and they're playing fortnite.
I've been told that fortnite makes some kids go crazy, angry, hostile.
The kids become so addicted to the games they'll become angry and hostile if you try to limit their screen time.

What they're not doing is getting outside and riding on their bikes and playing with their mates and getting up to regular mischief...

The kids that are getting outside... are just as likely to be hanging out with mates, stealing (just to get smokes to begin with), vaping, having sex at 13 or 14, sharing nude pictures of themselves on snapchat, (I bet snapchat has quite an extensive database of kiddy porn, from the kids sharing it with each other) getting into other drugs, crack pipes, running the streets with knives and machetes....
- then it's robbing people, bashing people and stealing cars.

And it's no surprise some parents feel its safer to keep their kids inside, over-sheltered.
Random people including kids being stabbed at the local shops and that...

If you hear the words 'misinformation' and 'disinformation';
- the context is to sell you censorship.
Right now the US government funds Ukraine; and Ukraine uses those US funds to put US citizens who oppose the war; people considered 'information terrorists' on Ukrainian hitlists marked for death.

Don't tell me about some caring moral government authority that is there to protect people.
We have labor governments that are so soft on youth crime, you could almost say that they themselves are directly responsible for the crimes themselves, and we're not talking about online harm, we're talking about street violence.

Old ladies robbed, bashed or stabbed in their homes or in the street.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." B Franklin.

and will eventually lose both liberty and the safety they crave.

Yuyutsu,

eSafety will not be threatening your freedom to communicate.

As the Commissioner explains their purpose is:

"to help safeguard Australians from online harms and to
promote safer, more positive online experiences.

What they do is explained in the following link:

http://esafety.gov.au/about-us/what-we-do

'to help safeguard Australians from online harms'

* safe guard

You can't 'safeguard' anyone from harm.
You can however 'attempt' to do so.
- And become a totalitarian, authoritarian, NAZI, Nanny, Surveillance / Police State in the process.

'Safeguard' is an unrealistic aim.

'Minimise online harm' is a more realistic aim, but it has no context.

'Minimise online harm whilst recognising and maintaining peoples right to speak freely' puts it into a context that recognises there must be a kind of balance.

Not simply 'safeguard'.
- That's a mandate without any limits or context.
- It assumes that people must adhere to simply unrealistic ideals.
That makes them slaves and their governments authoritarian.

All this from some foreign woman who isn't even Australian.
It's a travesty.

Hi AC,

Actually, she is married to Nick Grant who is Australian.
They have 3 children, and she IS an Australian Citizen.

Still, Haven't we had/have - "foreigners" as our Heads-Of-State?

It's not been a travesty - but a tradition

According to Terry Barnes (Spectator), failed UK Prime Minister (50 days in the job) Liz Truss has written a book, in which she writes that she likes Australia and Australians: we are “like Britain without the hand-wringing and declinism”.

But, we are quickly catching up with the absurdity of the UK, and will soon overtake them with the likes of Albanese and his Censor- in-Chief from the U.S putting us down.

Terry Barnes points out what the enlightened and aware among us already know: that “Australia is increasingly a nation of tribes, each sticking with their own, each finding enemies in those different to them, and each unwilling, even refusing, to find common ground with other Australians”.

Governments have caused this. The Covid years saw Australians under the yoke of the most authoritarian restrictions in the Western world.

The authoritarianism of the public ‘servant’ Julie Inman Grant (appointed by ‘call me-Malcolm’ Turnbull in 2015) is an example of our situation.

We have become “more fragmented, intolerant and angry”.

Just what the divisive Anthony Albanese wanted and planned for, resulting in the Voice, with more to come, via Inman Grant.

Our streets are starting to look like those in the UK: howling hate mobs of Arab immigrants, aided and abetted by local Communists; hate preachers vomiting their rubbish with impunity; censorship more like that found in Communist China; truth being called ‘misinformation’ by the Albanese regime - and the Opposition.

Australians had the most draconian Covid rules inflicted on them in the Western world. Government misinformation. Ruined lives. Ruined livelihoods. Ruined reputations. Disbarred doctors. Isolation from families, living and dying. Arresting people sitting or walking in the open air. Rubber bullets used against protesters. Thousands of online posts taken down. Colossal overspending to keep people subdued. Creation of an unconstitutional ‘national cabinet’ by a cowardly Prime Minister.

Soon, we won't be allowed to even ‘wring our hands’.

Terry Barnes believes that Australia's "leadership" is inadequate to defuse the "deep social tensions".

Well, yes, of course; they caused the problems in the first place.

"Australia is less open, less free, less trusting and more fearful than it was just a few short years ago".

"Actually, she is married to Nick Grant who is Australian.
They have 3 children, and she IS an Australian Citizen."

Majority of women her age have children and they all had to sleep with some bloke to do it.
The fact that she slept with an Aussie bloke and moved here and decided to be an Australian, doesn't really earn her any domain over deciding what is and is right for the rest of us, especially people who were born here, when she wasn't.
No-one ELECTED her to make decisions.

The fact that she 'decided' to become a citizen does not mean that earns her any right to decide what rules the rest of us have to live by.

I honestly wonder if the fact she 'decided' to move here and to become an Australian citizen, should disqualify her from EVER being in a decision making capacity?

You can't 'decide' that you want to come to the country and live here, and then be allowed to be placed into a position where you get to 'decide' what rules the people who were already here long before you 'decided' to come have to now live by.

You should be permitted to advise.
You should not be able to decide;
- Unless elected into a decision-making capacity by the rest of us.
Not appointed by traitors.

What I have to say to / about Julie Inman Grant, can't be spoken here due to forum rules regarding respect and decency.
Would I like to say what I really think?
Do I feel like my rights are being infringed by not being 'allowed' to say what I really think?
Well I have no big issue self-censoring myself, as I am not the owner of the forum and what I have to say isn't at all good taste,
short and sweet; includes numerous instances of foul language.

It's better for all involved if I can find a way to say it without having to break any of the rules.
Point achieved?

I don't want to live in a country that's been bubble wrapped top to bottom,
And that there's someone looking over everyones shoulder checking that everything is to regulation.
And handing out infraction notices for what we say and think when it doesn't align with their dystopian nightmare!

In January 2017 Grant was appointed by the Australian
government as the national eSafety Commissioner. A
position established in July 2015 by the government
of former Prime Minister Tony Abbott under the
Enhancing Online Safety for Children Act 2015.

In June 2022, Grant was re-appointed in her Commissioner
role for another 5 years.

That speaks for itself.

Hi AC,

I understand what you're saying. You like it when you don't
have to be careful about what you say. That's when you
know you're with the right people.

I don't want to live in a country that's been bubble wrapped top to bottom,
And that there's someone looking over everyones shoulder checking that everything is to regulation.
And handing out infraction notices for what we say and think when it doesn't align with their dystopian nightmare!
Posted by Armchair Critic, Sunday, 28 April 2024 1:59:54 PM

AC,

All sane people would agree with you. But, it is amazing just how many people are not sane: on this site, and in the wider community. Why? I don't know. Lack of self worth? Inability to think for themselves? Fear of people they think are above them? Cowardice? Thinking that Big Brother will only go for people who don't share their own beliefs?

Don't know. But they are contributing to the downward spiral of democracy.

Dear Foxy,

«eSafety will not be threatening your freedom to communicate.»

My personal freedom to communicate?
Who cares about it?
I nearly always write what I write on OLO for the general good, not for personal benefit.
Besides, I do not use social media, I stay away from it like from fire.

They could of course step further and restrict (or cut off completely) OLO as well: Should that happen, then I will continue to communicate freely to friends and families by E-mail, also use chatrooms and video-conferencing.

Then they could cut the above as well: Should that happen, then I will once again start writing and sending real mail on real paper, perhaps even including magnetic tapes or disks in the envelope.

They could forbid that too: Should that happen, I will still communicate freely with my local friends, perhaps I will even get to know my neighbours...

They could throw me in jail to prevent that too: Should that happen, I will still communicate freely with the jailers and other inmates.

They could throw me in a solitary dungeon: Should that happen, I will still communicate through my senses with parts of nature.

They could then destroy my body: Should that happen, I will still communicate with God, and this nobody could ever take away from me.

«As the Commissioner explains their purpose is:

<blablabla>

What they do is explained in the following link:»

Israeli media has a rule:
When Hamas releases a video clip showing hostage(s) speak, Israeli media will only publish still pictures from that video, in attempt to ascertain the physical and mental state of the hostage(s) - never what they say, as much as everyone would dearly love to hear their voice(s), because the content of their words is clearly what Hamas dictates to them, not what they themselves would like to say to their loved ones.

Similarly, I am not interested in and am not willing to read enemy propaganda.

Dear Ttbn,

«The Covid years saw Australians under the yoke of the most authoritarian restrictions in the Western world.»

In 2020-2021 I made the error of acquiescing to these restrictions because I was hoping that they will result in the breaking of the Australian Commonwealth into its constituent independent states - that being a step in the right direction.

Omicron shattered that dream.

Once the milder Omicron replaced the former and terrible Delta variant, state-borders were opened and no restrictions even made sense any more.

I think that if we still had Delta or similar as the dominant COVID variant, then the splitting of Australia into independent states could be a likely result. Nevertheless, we should not complain and only thank God for Omicron.

I acquiesced to these restrictions because I didn't want to contribute to more elderly Australians dying than had to, as it was obvious that many with more fragile immune systems in places such as nursing homes would succumb to the virus.

The few small lockdowns we had in QLD were a small price to pay in order to feel like I did not contribute to making the problem worse or that others might die because of it.

I can't comment on what it was like for Victorians or for others whose lockdown situation was for a much more extended period.

Maybe just the act of going along with it
- 'a small price to pay' was itself the greater evil?
In that it set a precedent of what the government 'could' get away with?

Was I wrong to comply?

Year after year we celebrate the ANZACS
'Loyalty to country!'

My relatives were ANZACS, it's nothing special really.
When I was a kid growing up at school, I think the majority of the kids would've had ANZAC relatives.
Now though, I think the kids at school with ANZAC relatives would be the minority.

There's another bloke we used to celebrate in Australia.
He was famous for more different reasons, infamous if you will.

His name was Ned Kelly.
We celebrate him because he told the authorities to go and get stuffed.
Maybe we should start celebrating him every year instead.

Foxy, can you write us a rhyme for Ned Kelly?

Dear Critic,

«Was I wrong to comply?»

Going along with sensible and life-saving medical advice is not even a "smaller evil".

Doing the same physical actions out of compliance, fear from or loyalty to the regime, is a moral failure.

I followed most restrictions because I didn't want to be infected and infect others. Once I even naively did a PCR test when I had a cold, before I discovered that I could be arrested if it was positive (fortunately it was not) and thrown in an hotel where I would not be allowed to maintain my religious principles and could likely die there as a martyr. After that, when I had any symptom I simply remained at home for awhile and when finally I actually had COVID, I only reported about it anonymously: while I thought that having the correct statistics was medically important, I would not give myself in to the regime.

In short, your inner motive is what matters and only you know it. Follow your conscience and your conscience alone. May God bless you.

«His name was Ned Kelly.
We celebrate him because he told the authorities to go and get stuffed.
Maybe we should start celebrating him every year instead.»

Yes, we should celebrate Ned Kelly... but we should not celebrate the theft of sheep.

I'd rather trust my neighbours with more freedom than trust our politicians with more power.

AC

I complied where I had to. I've even had 6 jabs, the last one I reacted to.

But, there should be no compulsion; nobody should lose their job or suffer for making their own decisions. This business of doing for other people is Communist bullsh-t.

It is now quite clear that all the ‘science’ was wrong, and all the public servant/political dogma was actually misinformation by the government, the main source of misinformation.

Mhaze,

We cannot trust politicians with anything.

The proposed and existing censorship is made even worse by the fact that the government and the mainstream media are EXEMPT. All the Covid liars are EXEMPT.

Good comment from One Nation Senator, Malcolm Roberts - in case you are waiting for the
Coalition to save our freedoms:

“ …. Mr Dutton surrendered the leadership to Labor. He has been stumbling along the pavement of good intentions for years, tripping over his self-made gaffes, dusting himself down, and stumbling again. On this occasion he has chosen to stay in the dirt and advance legislation that robs Australians of their freedom of speech”.

So the Federation has agreed to National Firearms Registry agreed to by all Australian states/territories and to be implemented by 2028.

"1935 will go down in history! For the first time a civilised nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"

-Adolf Hitler

The kind or reasoning found in Mein Kampf is not unknown today. And if Hitler has to be understood, the study of Mein Kampf is an essential part of this process. The second reason for its study is that we may know and recognise the arguments of the enemies of democracy in our midst..... So miserably little time and thought is given in our educational system to the analysis and understanding of contemporary political processes (Or to the rights, duties and intellectual justification of citizenship) that the public generally seem unable to recognise these arguments for what they are, the shrill tones of enemies of democracy.

(Pgxiii Extracts from introduction to "Mein Kampf" Adolf Hitler by D Cameron Watt University of London)

One naturally assumes that a similar National Kitchen Utensil Registry will likewise be established in due course, with public possession of unlicensed or unregistered bamboo knife/fork/spoon sets (including salt & pepper sachets with napkin) attracting hefty gaol sentences.