Frank wrote on Nov 11^th, 2024 at 4:25pm:



Good.

Q&A is part of our own Deep State.

Hopefully Dutton will follow Trump and exorcise the demons in it.

If enacted, the bill shall not only be in force to affect a future referendum, as many have noted, but also next year’s federal election. ...The argument that this misinformation bill only seeks to hold to account multinational technology conglomerates like Meta is false. It regulates service providers so as to censor individual users’ works and opinions.

From this bill, to Revive, to the Voice to Parliament, to the amendments to Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984, to the removal of Queen Elizabeth from the five-dollar note, to the introduction of a republic minister, to the installation of an activist governor-general, it is very much the case that, for this Commonwealth government, the end – that is, the centralisation of political power to achieve total control – justifies the means. As a composer and a monarchist, I oppose that end. I believe we all must.

Alexander Voltz



As for the banning of under-16s from social media - do people realise that verifying age will apply to everyone, with its attendant data collection and storage?

The future of the free press, citizen journalism, and the public voice hangs in the balance. Elon Musk has made this clear with a bombardment of tweets.

After declaring, ‘This platform [X] is the top source of news on Earth!’ Musk said, ‘Legacy media sits upon a throne of lies!’ He further accused it of ‘relentlessly spreading hate and division’.

‘The legacy media is the propaganda arm of the radical leftists, so [it] will immediately go after anyone who merely wants centrist policies and fairness for all … the reason the public no longer trusts the legacy media is that the media has been exposed as lying too many times to count. Legacy media absolutely deserves the lack of respect and ridicule it gets.’

Musk has also made comments that this election ‘is a verdict on civilisation’ and he may be right. The way in which a government interprets freedom is the foundation of its laws. If freedom means freedom to agree with the government and everything else is dangerous misinformation and disinformation, then Western Civilisation is kindle for the communist fires.

During an interview earlier this year, Elon Musk explained exactly why he believes citizen journalism, which is being heavily promoted by X, is vastly superior to conventional journalism.

‘This is really going to be the new model of news, which is to gather information from people who are at the scene … you’ve got real-time aggregation of the collective wisdom of tens of millions of people. Although something may be said that is incorrect, it is very quickly corrected. Whereas a newspaper that is publishing, what happened yesterday, when you read the article, that article could be wrong, often is wrong, but there’s no rebuttal to the article.’

What Elon Musk says is true, there is a war against free speech. Unpopular governments are obsessed with controlling the press because they perceive criticism as a threat. If government is wrong about something, their God-like status is diminished. The closer a government is to a dictatorship, the more it fears the whispering of its people amplified in print. While Xi Jinping spent Halloween rounding up people dressed as Donald Trump, imagine how terrified our governments are of the day climate change is proven false. The public will want more than a pound of flesh to account for trillions of dollars in missing public money.

It is also true that protecting speech is a business concern for Elon Musk. He has decided to monetise freedom and his business model cannot survive in a world of tyrants and mentally fragile socialist parties.

There are worse things for rich people to do than make a business out of liberating human speech.

Saying that Elon Musk’s business goals align with the fundamental rights of the West is not to pick fault. If capitalism can save democracy, what better proof will we have that free markets are superior to interfering governments who, when appointing themselves to the task of ‘citizen safety’ choose ‘citizen slavery’ as their solution?
https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/11/garbage-the-free-press-and-the-war-over-apo...


https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-drive/legal-experts-shoot-d...

I see why AnAl hates X

More here - too much to copy and paste -

https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/misinformation-and-disinformation

It's dead.

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Setanta wrote on Nov 24^th, 2024 at 12:24pm:


Jesus - that Bill Scrapped is sure ugly ...

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Nov 25^th, 2024 at 1:39pm:



Yes - over 70 pages of Big Brother - Ministry of Truth, nonsense.

It was a disguise for the Govt to get the real names of
everyone who posts on social media and then silence them with Thought Police
if they disagreed with any Govt policy.