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1. nomilk · 1790133002 · focus · HN ↗

   As is common in political shenanigans, the draft bill has a euphemistic label ('algorithmic opt-out') - what it actually does is allow unspecified bureaucrats such as the Minister for Communications to designate any individual piece of content as 'harmful' and have it banished from the internet.

   As an Australian who just wants relatively free access to information (and the ability to freely/easily discuss it), it's frustrating.

   And it's not the first time the Australian government has done this; last year they banned U16 from social media, several weeks later everyone was alerted to Bondi by... social media.. so they could get the heck out of there, but U16... they were left clueless and unable to get updates (news sites ran 30+ minutes behind real-time events and official sites like NSW Police took 70+ minutes to even announce there was a shooter).

   1. gregoryl · 1790133851 · focus · HN ↗

      We elected a central-left government, and somehow ended up with center right. Its deeply frustrating.

      1. maximus_01 · 1790134000 · focus · HN ↗

         The days of the left being more supportive of free speech than the right are long over

         1. linkregister · 1790135521 · focus · HN ↗

            Yeah, nah, the Australian right has been casting pro-Palestinian speech as anti-semitic.

            In the States, the right has been supportive of government suppression of speech, including the communications agency (FCC) threatening broadcasters into cancelling an interview with a politician in the opposition party. The right's free speech record is far worse in the US and Australia.

            Admittedly, neither side of the aisle have good free speech practices in most of the rest of the world.

            1. bamboozled · 1790135876 · focus · HN ↗

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               1. bigyabai · 1790136115 · focus · HN ↗

                  Palestine can exist alongside Israel. You are the only one "picking sides" here.

                  1. bamboozled · 1790136190 · focus · HN ↗

                     It’s precisely my point. Those people will have to learn to live side, and it’s not going to happen when people are taking sides, buying into propaganda etc.

                     Like I said, it’s not a football game where you run around Sydney with your face painted screaming “from the river to the sea” it will solve nothing.

                     1. bigyabai · 1790136370 · focus · HN ↗

                        Palestine isn't annexing neighboring nations or refusing humanitarian corridors to starving civilian populations.

                        It's okay to be pro-Palestine if you want to promote peace. Likud certainly isn't making any headway on rapprochement.

                        1. imawakegnxoxo · 1790139414 · focus · HN ↗

                           We have nothing to do with this war, and just because "one side invaded the other" does not make either of them right - both sides have been murdering each other over religious garbage for 100s of years

                           This isn't our business and we shouldn't be involved

                           Thinking that we, as Australians, need to get involved looks to me like "aw these poor little brown people don't know what they're doing they need a big strong white man to sort it out!"

                           Picking a side here isn't advocating for peace it's posturing

                           1. linkregister · 1790140408 · focus · HN ↗

                              > both sides have been murdering each other over religious garbage for 100s of years

                              The Mandate for Palestine and Jewish resettlement started in 1917 after the first world war.

                              Unless you're talking about the Roman expulsion of Jews from Judea in the 2nd century CE? The claim is still quite a stretch.

                              1. imawakegnxoxo · 1790146051 · focus · HN ↗

                                 I did specify over religious garbage and not over this specific piece of land

                                 Regardless, the point is we aren't "fighting for peace and freedom," we're just murdering a bunch of people in a different country over something we have nothing to do with

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