The Australian govt. have timed this well. The passage of this legislation has further closed the window for the big tech players to make the appropriate amoun

The Australian govt. have timed this well. The passage of this legislation has further closed the window for the big tech players to make the appropriate amount of noise about the anti-encryption legislation. The opportunity was there a few months ago to blackout services to Australia with a heavily spun PR campaign about how if they can't serve Australians while respecting proper encryption, which has rightly become a major foundation of our digital communications, then they can't serve Australia at all. The Australian govt. is mad if they think their usual "think of the children" schpeal tops the boomers generation's general ongoing emotional dependence on Facebook.com. But we're far enough into the era of Big Tech now that the players with the most power don't give a fuck anymore about the internet's role as a potential enabler of The Good Parts of the western worldview (Facebook, being the outlier, never did and hardly pretended to). Instead we have them being silent enough on anti-encryption legislation in Australia, and implementing censored search in China. I think it's over.