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The government will have the power to “shut down free speech and alternative positions” over a large range of topics.
Actions against free speech will be funded by us, the victims of the Bill. We, ordinary people, will probably not be attacked personally, digital media platforms will be, if they allow us to speak, write, post as we do now.
And, as Minny Jackson (‘New censorship and surveillance beast is tabled in Parliament’, Spectator) writes, the material that can be reported (by any activist and offendee presumably) is “insanely broad”, including text, music and “other sounds”, visual images and “other forms of data”.
Given governments’ own iffy reputation with the truth, to allow them to dictate what is true and what is not would be “laughably insane”. But that's what they want.
The Morrison government came up with the idea of censoring speech before they were ousted. Now in opposition, they say they won't vote for this Bill. Maybe. I don't trust them. They are all for the government taking away the rights of parents to decide what their kids can watch or not watch, if they have smartphones or not. But even if they don't support this Bill, there are the Greens who will support anything to keep Australians down, and a few other odd bods in the Senate.
Elon Musk called the Albanese government “fascist “ over this Bill. The Opposition spokesman David Coleman was too prissy to agree, coming up with alternative ‘nicer’ weasel words.
I also watched John O'Sullivan last night talking about European main parties colluding and keeping their jobs with no opposition apart from a few small, itsy-bitsy parties and independents. I think the same thing will happen here.