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.