Submission against proposed "misinformation" censorship law
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Submission against proposed "misinformation" censorship law
Yes, the government is actually trying to do this
For those who have been following the proposed Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023, this is my submission in PDF form.
If you are looking at this area, you might find it useful even if only for the links in the footnotes, where you can find original reports.
Note: I updated it, adding quite a bit on 20 August - so this is an amended version.
That is an impressive and well researched submission. Well done. I hope the content is taken on board, but sadly, ideology usually trumps fact and logic.
My submission was rather more succinct - I said the legislation was totalitarian and I would never ever vote for any political party that supported it.
I occasionally cast my mind back to how bad things were from the beginning of the Covid Era. They had Australians dobbing each other in, they trampled on our constitutional and legal rights and freedoms. They brutalized legal protesters and intimidated citizens in their own homes. They coerced and deprived the people of their liberties.
They had us under surveillance and collaborated with corporations to censor us.
Lest we forget.