Clinton is an American.

We're talking about the bill here in Australia.

Reading it might help.

"Clinton is an American.
We're talking about the bill here in Australia.
Reading it might help."

Hi Foxy,
I think it's fair to say that these censorship changes aren't happening in isolation.

UN Trade and Development
Digital Identity in a New Era of Data Protection
http://unctad.org/meeting/digital-identity-new-era-data-protection

Yes, I probably should read it, sometimes I can be stubborn in my own biases.

Take a look at this:

Peter Dutton backs age verification for viewing online pornography
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/25/peter-dutton-backs-age-verification-for-viewing-online-pornography

While I don't think young kids should be watching porn, I just don't see how you can stop kids accessing it.
And that makes me think this whole entire thing isn't essentially about protecting kids it's about controlling the government narrative.

I just don't see how this thing moves forward without the government ultimately having access and oversight to every click of your mouse or tap of a key on your keyboard, otherwise what would be the point.

Dear Critic,

«I just don't see how this thing moves forward without the government ultimately having access and oversight to every click of your mouse or tap of a key on your keyboard, otherwise what would be the point.»

Then use older keyboards and mouses with older computers!

The book "The Green Hills of Earth" (1947) by Robert A. Heinlein, tells of slaves sold to labour in the colonial poles of the planet Venus (which were marginally inhabitable, unlike the hotter rest of the planet). After some managed to escape their masters, they formed an underground, conducting guerrilla warfare from the marshes they were hiding in. To be able to communicate, they re-invented AM radio, as that technology was already forgotten by their oppressors who only used the more sophisticated FM radio (invented in 1933).

Mind you, the proposed law does not cover only social-media but most internet communications as well (with only few exclusions such as E-mail) - yes, OLO too. That is why the law includes the minister's discretion to exclude platforms, so small and less significant platforms like OLO may be excluded to start, then added later.

One thing we could, for now, do against that law, is to always start our communications with, "The following is not necessarily true: (whatever we want to say}".

Social media is harmful in any case, better without it and better anyway to talk with real people face-to-face.

Hi Yuyutsu,

"Social media is harmful in any case, better without it and better anyway to talk with real people face-to-face."

What then of books, television and the press? You have every freedom to have and express your opinion, even act on it as you see fit, but is it anyone's place to deny participation for everybody on the basis that they consider it harmful?

Hi Foxy,

I'm surprised that the fellow who held a referendum about giving people a public voice now wants to silence mine. Jacinta remarked that a person who has been an Australian for five minutes is as much a citizen as a person with ancestry going back thousands of years. Expressing our diverse opinions on sites like this without the censorship of a bureaucracy should be our right as citizens. Places such as OLO should be our voice.

Hi Fester,

Personally I'm not sure if the length of someone's
life in a country makes them a good citizen. I
think it's what a person feels in his heart. As we
know there were many so called "good " citizens who
had lived in countries for generations who ended up
selling their countries out given the opportunity.

Hi Foxy,

Well said. I can't understand how people can value the concept of equality and then make stereotyped value judgements based on religion and ethnicity. It just seems to promote a "them and us" mentality.