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Mr. Morrison seems to be a senseless populist that doesn't understand what he is talking about. > The new legislation will introduce a complaints mechanism, so

Mr. Morrison seems to be a senseless populist that doesn't understand what he is talking about. > The new legislation will introduce a complaints mechanism, so that if somebody thinks they are being defamed, bullied or attacked on social media, they will be able to require the platform to take the material down. If you cannot predict the consequences, I believe you cannot craft sensible policy either. No offense to those that voted for him.

mandmandam 5y ago
Ehhhh, not to deny the existence of Hanlon's razor but ever since W* (well, Reagan**) weaponized a veil of affable incompetence to plausibly deny wholesale corruption, the trend has exploded across the world. From Boris Johnson to Trump to Morrison, the idea that these 'morons' could ever be performing calculated evil seems impossible for many on the left to grasp. Meanwhile, they have facilitated the transfer of unimaginable amounts of wealth from the middle class to their friends in weapons and fossil fuel. And the media (with very few exceptions) who are dependent on money from the same evil entities, have played up their image as bumbling but fundamentally well-meaning blokes, who somehow stumbled into these most powerful positions. I honestly am staggered that we're still offering these people the benefit of the doubt, even after seeing these countries literally go up in flames. * Bush graduated from both Yale and Harvard, after studying how companies can fail while making their owners and investors a shit-ton of money. It's amazing how few people see anything worth reporting in this. Hey how much do we one on those interest payments for our forever wars again? ** This shit was probably first developed thousands of years ago - Boris Johnson did study Ancient Greece
- raxxorrax 5y ago
  You are correct, but I believe that allegations like these need evidence which I cannot provide. But on its own it is still just bad policy. Easy to sell though, since negatives are difficult to explain in a short paragraph, so it would file under politically untenable.

mandmandam 5y ago

Ehhhh, not to deny the existence of Hanlon's razor but ever since W* (well, Reagan**) weaponized a veil of affable incompetence to plausibly deny wholesale corruption, the trend has exploded across the world. From Boris Johnson to Trump to Morrison, the idea that these 'morons' could ever be performing calculated evil seems impossible for many on the left to grasp. Meanwhile, they have facilitated the transfer of unimaginable amounts of wealth from the middle class to their friends in weapons and fossil fuel. And the media (with very few exceptions) who are dependent on money from the same evil entities, have played up their image as bumbling but fundamentally well-meaning blokes, who somehow stumbled into these most powerful positions. I honestly am staggered that we're still offering these people the benefit of the doubt, even after seeing these countries literally go up in flames. * Bush graduated from both Yale and Harvard, after studying how companies can fail while making their owners and investors a shit-ton of money. It's amazing how few people see anything worth reporting in this. Hey how much do we one on those interest payments for our forever wars again? ** This shit was probably first developed thousands of years ago - Boris Johnson did study Ancient Greece

raxxorrax 5y ago
You are correct, but I believe that allegations like these need evidence which I cannot provide. But on its own it is still just bad policy. Easy to sell though, since negatives are difficult to explain in a short paragraph, so it would file under politically untenable.