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Dystopian legislation pulled again.
BILL DROPPED
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has confirmed the government will pull the controversial ‘misinformation’ bill after the Opposition and the Greens vowed to oppose it.
The Bill, which the government said aimed ‘to combat seriously harmful content on digital platforms’ will be scrapped in the senate, acknowledging there was “no pathway” for the bill to succeed.
The proposed legislation was also opposed by a wide-ranging group of community groups, free speech organisations and religious groups over concerns it would harm free speech, with stakeholders questioning how the definition of truth would be enforced.
Even I wrote my two cents on the dystopian, Orwellian push.
Rowland, in conceding defeat, accused the Coalition of “playing politics”.
“The Coalition committed to legislating safeguards when in government, but chose to place partisanship above any attempt to navigate the public interest,” she said.
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Peter Dutton welcomed the axed bill, which her termed a “scandalous attack on free speech”.
“No minister and no bureaucrat has a monopoly on truth. And yet, Labor’s legislation sought to make government and unelected bureaucrats the arbiters of truth.”
Shadow Attorney-General, Michaelia Cash, said the bill was an attempt to “censor free speech”.
“This bill is not about misinformation and disinformation… This bill is about the Albanese government giving bureaucrats the ability to say whether what you and I say is misinformation or disinformation,” she told Sky News.
Remember when news outlets first told us the bill wouldn’t do this? Dismissing concerns as ‘conspiracy’?
Yet another tick for those actually paying attention to things, and a great victory yet again.
The ”misinformation’ bill would have put legal obligations on social media platforms to address “false, misleading or deceptive content”, or “content reasonably likely to cause serious harm”, as well as equip the Australian Communications and Media Authority to regulate such content.
In 2023, a first version of the legislation was scrapped and redrafted in a bid to win wider support, but now the second attempt also failed to garner backing or assuage wider concerns from critics.
Which begs the question: Could this happen again? Will the bill be back again?
Dutton said the government should assure the people the push won’t return again, but we can’t rule this out entirely, as they have done it once before. And with existing pushes by our ‘e-safety’ department in censoring and policing the web, it is likely they will try and find another way (as they always do).
WILL IT BE BACK?
In some positive news, the bill won’t become law.
And, not to ruin the well-deserved celebration, but we must ask the question of whether or not this bill — or a similar type of push — will return once again.
In parliament, Michelle Rowland said there still needed to be “safeguards” to protect Australians from ‘misinformation’, and urged MPs and senators to work with Labor on alternative concessions.
She insisted ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ (typically already handled by intelligence agencies) remained “a grave concern for democracy, national security and online safety”.
“Mis-and disinformation is an evolving threat and no single action is a perfect solution, but we must continue to improve safeguards to ensure digital platforms offer better protections for Australians,” she said.
She listed alternative proposals like legislation to strengthen offences targeting the sharing of non-consensual and sexually explicit deep fakes, a proposal to enforce truth in political advertising for elections, and stronger regulations around artificial intelligence.
Greens’ Communications spokeswoman, Sarah Hanson-Young, said that while the intent behind the bill was “well-meaning,” the proposed laws were “badly and poorly explained and implemented”.
She’s called for stronger regulation, which would target “dangerous algorithms” and heavy financial penalties for social media companies.
“We’ve got to get back to the real problem, and that is how these companies profit off these dangerous posts. If you want to stop the dangerous posts spreading like wildfire, hit them where it hurts, and that’s the dollar,” she told the ABC.
So, as you can see, even those that voted the bill down are on-board for some type of censorship.
And this isn’t even taking a look at what the WEF-driven, Davos-attending eSafety Commissioner is scheming in her role, with Julie Inman Grant on a crusade to ‘fight online harm’.
Two mandatory standards aimed at child safety were released by the regulator last year, in which providers are being advised to “detect and remove child-abuse material and pro-terror material where technically feasible” – as well as “disrupt and deter new material of that nature”.
The World Economic Forum describe her as an “agenda shifter”, planted from the United States and Bill Gates’ Microsoft with the direct intention of steering online thought policing.
Apple has warned the proposal to force tech companies to scan cloud and messaging services for child-abuse material risks “…undermining fundamental privacy and security protections” and “…could lead to mass surveillance with worldwide repercussions“.
Australia, through the regulator, has positioned itself as a ‘world leader’ on the front to ‘fight disinformation’, including with our pledge to ‘reclaim the internet’.
So, if you were to ask me if the bill will come back: I would say yes.
When national facial recognition legislation was rejected in 2019, the government just re-designed the scheme as national digital identification, which is now set to go live next month.
And with existing pushes already underway on the ‘e-Safety’ side of things, the truth is, they don’t really need parliament to give it the green light — they just transform society until legislation is ‘justified’.
So, celebrate long and hard tonight, freedom warriors. The never-ending fight against the NWO will continue tomorrow, both with Digital ID and when ‘misinformation’ censorship pushes return.
Well done to all.
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Rowland can hang from a lamp pole.
One of the many that need to answer for their Treason/Treachery .
The first selection criterion for folk like these must surely be willingness to betray the Australian people, at the behest of their globalist masters…because they never stop trying.
Orwell’s spectre has retired briefly, but is poised to reappear to warn of the age-limit social media/internet Trojan horse to facilitate digital ID.
‘THEY’, NEVER give up, in Service of Their FOREIGN Paymasters/PuppetTiers! What would one Expect of Members of a FOREIGN Corporation!
COMMONWEALRH OF AUSTRALIA; U.S.SEC Reg # ; CIK 0000805157. HQs ; Massachusetts Ave., WASHINGTON/ D.C. – NOT; CANBERRA A.C.T/ AUSTRALIA.
Foreign ; Def; ‘ Belonging TO, or Associated With, A COUNTRY WHICH IS NOT YOUR OWN!’
No wonder Prime Minstrel ForeverBendDaKneeSee is Wincing – From his Rectal expansion program- For MORE Foreign ‘Inputters’! The rest of the Lake Burley Griffin 2 Step Crew – Ditto! And just like the NWO, the WEF/U.N/World ‘Bank'(1) Cabal’s ‘Investment in Control’, WILL NOT go Wasted – It’ll be RE-Formatted & presented as Something ‘New’, OR, they’ll wait ‘Til their Programming takes effect on a later Mindless Generation & Represent Same With Psych pressures, akin to CONVID Exercise or ClimbApe (NOT) Change!
1) Folks haven’t forgotten the World Bank ‘Financed’ GLOBAL Project on CONVID Strategic Preparedness & Response; (Project I.D. ;173789). ‘Expected End Date’; 31 March 2025. The Next ‘Installed’ CLOWN, should be Polishing the seat – Forerunners ‘Warm Baton’ in hand, in the Oval Orifice! Business as usual.
Wellness – John D.