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| Australians have one week to save themselves from the Censorship Bill | |
| 2024-11-08 | |
| [LettersFromAustralia] The Censorship Bill now before the Parliament was punched through the lower house in a shock vote on Thursday, November 7. They did this on the sly, while we were looking at the US elections - then blinded us with the squid ink of “ban on social media for under-16s”. It has now passed both the Second and the Third Readings, which leaves just the Senate to stop it with a vote. This “Misinformation” Bill will give an unelected bureaucracy (ACMA) control of everything you can hear, see and say on social media, censoring the internet. ACMA is full of Permanent Canberra bureaucrats, spies and ex-cops. They will decide what is “accurate” and what is “wrong” or “lies” and then censor what they deem “misinformation”. You will never again see or share a dissenting scientific, medical or economic opinion if the Government decides it is causing too much flack for the bureaucracy or their corporate “partners”. If you want free speech you must act now, there’s no time to waste. Senate sits next on November 18 - you can see the calendar here. To stop this Bill you need to contact the Senators in your state - and tell them that if they vote this into law, that you will punish them at the next election and campaign actively to have them voted out. Go in person (but be polite) to your nearest electoral office. Failing that, phone their office. Be always calm and polite - never rude. There must be electoral consequences for this. I will update this Substack with a record of how they voted. They will not be forgotten. This Bill will not only censor the internet, it will back-engineer censorship of corporate media where the metric of journalistic success is clicks and shares on socials. If socials are censored for what the government calls “misinformation” then The Guardian, ABC, SBS and Nine will all self-censor, too. Lawyer Tony Nikolic accurately pinpointed that the institutions that stand behind this “misinformation” censorship bill - media organisations, government agencies, regulatory bodies and bureaucracies - are not neutral arbiters of truth. Rather, they are gatekeeepers, filtering and sanitising information to protect their own interests. I will add that they are the bureaucratic class of university-educated entitled people, who despise the blue-collar working class. They hate you and they will not share power with you, and they are afraid of you. That is why they want to control what you can say and share online. “Free speech is not dangerous,” Nikolic wrote. “It is the cure for misinformation, prejudice, and bias. It is through the clash of opinions, unfettered debate, and the exchange of ideas that we as a society find truth.” More than 22,000 people have signed a petition against the Bill as of November 8: click the button below to add your voice.
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| Posted by:Anon1 |
| #2 Note - this is NOT the same as the plan to ban kids under 16 from socials which is a good idea This is a plan to set up a ministry of truth to censor the internet for everyone including preventing you from sharing dissenting science, economics or medical opinions |
| Posted by: anon1 2024-11-08 15:28 |
| #1 THIS is the censorship bill they are using to bypass the 1a to censor america from outside |
| Posted by: anon1 2024-11-08 08:05 |