Paul Collits Politicom 12th January 2025 One of the many unforgivable things the Liberals did in government was to allow the censorship of free speech, executed ironically by Peter Dutton’s then Home Affairs bureaucrats. The Liberal Party had got itself into a tizz over something called “18c”. This is a section of the Race DiscriminationContinue reading “‘Never, ever forgive these evil bastards’”
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Iceland has Digital ID and knows everything about everyone, while Australia becomes a hacker’s paradise in November
Date: May 19, 2024Author: Editor, cairnsnews 26 CommentsAustralia just passed its Digital Identity Bill into law. I’m Australian, but live in Iceland : a country that already has an all-encompassing digital ID system. If you’re wondering how Australia’s new system will play out, I’ll tell you here. And also, how Australians who don’t want aContinue reading “Iceland has Digital ID and knows everything about everyone, while Australia becomes a hacker’s paradise in November”
Zuckerberg Trumped, but will he restore RFK Jnr’s web pages?
Date: January 8, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 9 Comments MARK Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, has made a spectacular backdown on the platform’s notorious censorship (aka fact-checking) system, but RFK Jnr wants to see him follow through and restore the pages of Childrens Health Defense, the organisation that exposes vaccine harm to children. Zuckerberg announced heContinue reading “Zuckerberg Trumped, but will he restore RFK Jnr’s web pages?”
State-sanctioned ‘truth’ is still a danger under the Greens and teals
Tom Switzer and Emilie Dye The Australian December 30, 2024 Australia dodged a bullet this year when the federal government withdrew its contentious legislation to regulate misinformation. The danger, though, is that a re-elected Labor government, in cahoots with the Greens and so-called teal independents, could revive the law in the next parliament. Under theContinue reading “State-sanctioned ‘truth’ is still a danger under the Greens and teals”
Australia a foreign country for Australians
Fred Pawle Politicom December 10, 2024 THE Albanese Government has given up pretending that parliament bears any influence on its policies. Crucial decisions are being made even before MPs have had a chance to debate them. The past is no longer a foreign country, as English novelist LP Hartley once asserted. If you want toContinue reading “Australia a foreign country for Australians”
The generation who want to shut you up
Flat White Alexandra Marshall Getty Images Alexandra Marshall 23 November 2024 7:42 PM Last week I was invited to give a speech on the escalation of government censorship for Western Heritage Australia. We were there to talk about the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill, which sits dead on arrival after the Greens promised to vote itContinue reading “The generation who want to shut you up”
Albo might ban you from commenting on this article
David Penberty Herald Sun November 23, 2024 “Never read the comments.” It’s advice you often hear being given to prospective newspaper columnists or occasional contributors to the opinion pages about the need to brace themselves for the free-wheeling mosh pit that is unfettered feedback from the general public. It’s a sentiment with which I haveContinue reading “Albo might ban you from commenting on this article”
Greens torpedo misinformation bill as top Trump ally raises concerns
Adam Creighton and Rhiannon Down The Australian November 22, 2024 The Greens will oppose Labor’s legislation combatting online misinformation citing concerns that the bill doesn’t “actually do what it needs to do”, as one of the top Republicans in the US Congress accuses the Australian government of seeking to “censor speech worldwide”. In a finalContinue reading “Greens torpedo misinformation bill as top Trump ally raises concerns”
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