The Thought Police Cometh.

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TRUTH WAS CENSORED

In the aftermath of the ‘pandemic’, the federal government has ‘moved to curb the easy spread’ of ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ on social media with new dystopian legislation.

If passed, legal experts worry the proposed laws could end up undermining the truth, and one glaring example of hypocrisy with the plan can be found in government-fed falsehoods during the ‘pandemic’.

When the COVID-19 ‘pandemic’ first began, public health officials said it was ‘not an airborne disease’ and instead ‘travelled by droplets from the nose or mouth’.

Months later, the public was now being told it could indeed ‘spread through the air’, and officials all of a sudden reversed their opinion out of nowhere.

Now, you might say: ‘Ethan, that is how science works’. And you are correct, for true science. But true scientific discourse, believe it or not, involved open discussion on the subject.

The problem, as we saw during the ‘pandemic’, was those who suggested from the start that it may be airborne — while the initial ‘consensus’ stood — were shouted down, and the opinion was often categorised as ‘misinformation’ and ‘conspiracy’. Despite it turning out to be true later on.

And this is just one example.

As time went on, virus sceptics began noticing irregularities with both the methodology and reporting of deaths associated with this ‘disease’.

But, at the time, pointing out that COVID death statistics may be exaggerated was considered a “dangerous” conspiracy theory, despite the fact it was later shown there was a 99% survival rate in Australia and 92% of deaths in this country had pre-existing co-morbidities.

Deaths, mind you, that were re-classified due to the ‘experts’ not being able to determine if a patient ‘died with’ or ‘died from’ COVID, admitting the two were mixed for the reporting.

We also heard repeatedly from the government and ‘health experts’ that the COVID-19 vaccine ‘would stop the spread’ and ‘those who took it would not get sick’. This was also a lie.

The ‘conspiracy theorists’ warned the public that the jabs won’t stop the spread in 2021, and argued any further lockdowns would be unjustified, only to be censored.

Media websites regularly dismissed any discussion of vaccine passports as “fantasy land”, only for the concept to be introduced soon after the jabs hit our consumer shelves.

How quickly, in truly Orwellian fashion, the ‘truth’ and ‘reality’ of a situation shifted on a regular basis.

So, who in their right mind would trust the same establishment (social media, government, ‘experts’) with the task of determining what is ‘harmful misinformation’?

TOTT News met our fair share of mainstream news outlets calling us ‘misinformation’.

Now, whether you disagree or not, the work on this website uses sources to present an argument.

If you disagree, you are welcome to comment or even join us for a podcast.

Is this ‘spreading misinformation’, or a genuine curiosity for public discourse?

What happened to the marketplace of free ideas?

Constitutional law expert Anne Twomey says if the Albanese government’s proposed misinformation and disinformation laws were in place in 2020, the correct information about COVID-19 could have been completely wiped from social media as the Thought Police ‘corrected’ the narrative.

Not just labelled with a ‘false information’ flag, or suspended for 30 days, but completely wiped.

And we know for a fact that a calculated effort to monitor and restrict information was conducted:

Thought Police: Australia’s censorship-industrial-complex finally detailed

“By excluding those possibilities, you actually give yourself the harm that you said you were trying to avoid,” Professor Twomey told a parliamentary inquiry into the matter.

The same inquiry has heard concerns the bill could infringe on freedom of speech, and that its method for assessing what is ‘true’ online, and what is not, is flawed.

But despite this, the government pushes on with their agenda.

The end of freedom of online expression in Australia could very well be on the horizon.

BILL ADVANCING FORWARD

Whilst Australians were focused on the U.S. election, the Australian Labor government introduced a special standing order to fast-track the Combatting Misinformation & Disinformation Bill 2024, effectively attempting ram through the proposed legislation.

The federal government has vowed to crack down on ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’, and on Thursday, the controversial bill passed the House of Representatives.

73 Labor MPs and 6 Independent MPs voted in favour of the bill in the House of Representatives.

The proposed laws will give the Australian Communications and Media Authority (AMCA) power to monitor digital platforms and require them to keep records about ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ on their networks, in a move that has sparked intense public debate.

The legislation aims to “…reduce the spread of seriously harmful misinformation and disinformation on digital communications platforms”.

The watchdog would also be able to approve an enforceable industry code of conduct, or introduce ‘standards’ for social media companies if self-regulation was deemed to fail.

Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said the bill was ‘necessary for keeping Australians safe’ during yesterday’s debate on the topic.

“This bill will increase the transparency and accountability of the actions of digital platforms … while balancing the freedom of expression that is at the very core of our democracy,” she said.

But the protections face a difficult path through the Senate, as one opposition politician likened them to something out of an Orwellian dystopia.

And he is correct. The proposed legislation would allow the government of the day to impose their subjective view of “truth” onto public discourse and effectively silence dissenting voices.

The coalition criticised the bill for limiting free speech, with Nationals MP Keith Pitt drawing comparisons to George Orwell’s seminal dystopian novel 1984.

“Will this end up in the equivalent of digital book burning because someone who is not an academic puts forward a view that the government of the day decides is unacceptable?” he said.

Both the Senate Scrutiny of Bills Committee and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights have raised concerns with the Bill.

The initial Draft Exposure Bill received over 23,000 responses from the Australian public during the consultation process, overwhelmingly negative; objecting the moves.

And, although it was advanced passed the House, it faces a bigger challenge in the Senate.

WILL IT PASS?

Labor’s path to passing its misinformation bill is narrowing, with several key crossbench senators going on the record in the past 24 hours to oppose the legislation.

ACT Senator David Pocock, for instance, said the following in a Facebook post overnight: “I’ve listened to the experts and people in the ACT and I’ll be opposing the Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill, unless major changes are made to the legislation”.

If the bill is indeed defeated, it will be for the second time.

In November last year, the Albanese government announced they would be overhauling the original draft bill, following widespread opposition to the move.

The government announced a delay in presenting the legislation to parliament until “sometime in 2024”, as they “adjusted their strategy” to ‘accommodate for concerns’.

Misinformation bill meets roadblock after strong opposition

At the time, the Australian Human Rights Commission said the misinformation bill would actually risk the freedoms it was supposedly aiming to protect.

Others have slammed the bill as a fundamental attack on Western freedoms, including from Elon Musk, who called the Australian government “fascists” in response.

And they are correct. No ‘free country’ should think about this type of Orwellian tyranny.

So, fingers crossed it is defeated.

But you know they will just come back again and again, revisiting and renaming, until their agenda is ultimately passed one way or the other.

That is, if the people don’t continue to keep fighting.

It was been defeated once already, and potentially for a second time.

What’s to say a few more defeats aren’t on the cards?

Either way, I thank you for the support of this website filled with ‘misinformation’.

I will press on for as long as I can in the Age of Big Brother.

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