Ironically, Canem Malum, we’re in a “town square” right now!

Further to this:

- Sky, 2GB, Spectator, The Australian, Rebel News, and most on X say the same things daily to massive audiences.

- Neo-Nazi rallies have been held in recent years, filmed and reported on without the organisers vanishing into gulags.

- Multiple Senators and MPs push this exact rhetoric in Parliament - and on national TV.

- Facebook groups, Telegram channels, podcasts, and YouTube shows run 24/7 for “traditionalists,” all free to join.

- Even complaints about being silenced are broadcast… loudly… in real time… without consequence.

The microphone works just fine, it seems. The problem is that the messages have no basis in reality.

CM

Our rulers have certainly lost confidence, common-sense, and honesty in the half century since the White Australia Policy was abolished. They used to make laws for us prior to 1973, now they make them for the United Nations.

Yes. We can ignore the “ugly noisy trolls”, but the media glorifies them, and people like our appalling Prime Minister, a liar, claims that 100,000 people, many of them not even Australian citizens, speak for our country.

I'm not sure that the ‘quiet Australians’ who do indeed outnumber the thugs, are much use any more, following their re-electing of a government that left no doubt in its first term that it was incompetent, authoritarian, anti-American, and all the other things that remind us of that other Fascist Italian, Benito Mussolini, who did pretty much everything to Italy than is now being done to Australia.

Good on you for withstanding and not feeding the noisy and ugly trolls on OLO.

ttbn,

If the “quiet Australians” really do outnumber the so-called thugs, and if they’re free to vote - which they clearly are - then what we’re talking about isn’t censorship or silencing.

It’s just that when given the choice, the majority didn’t agree with you. That’s not suppression of democracy, it’s the outcome of democracy.

And by your own account, those “quiet Australians” are less useful to you than the noisy ones - which makes it sound like your problem isn’t that people are being silenced, it’s that the people who agree with you aren’t persuasive or motivated enough to carry the day.

If anything, the fact they re-elected a government you can list a dozen faults for should be more troubling to you than any protest on the Harbour Bridge.

It suggests your frustration isn’t with “not being heard” - it’s with not having the numbers.