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I basically think of the department of home affairs as the morons that didn't realise 1984 was a warning and have mistaken it for a helpful instruction manual.

I basically think of the department of home affairs as the morons that didn't realise 1984 was a warning and have mistaken it for a helpful instruction manual. It's to be expected they want to eliminate any vestige of public rights in the name of safety, the safety of the state they believe they are protecting, not the safety of its citizens. Just look at the way they laud operation ironsides, the FBI turned ANOM into a giant entrapment scheme and was able to arrest no-one due to it being blatantly unconstitutional in the USA, while here in Australia, we have zero protections and the Federal Police round up every single person they can find, trumpeting the wild success of their largest operation ever... handed to them on a silver plater by the US FBI, and such bad police work that it was unable to arrest anyone in the USA... Just disgusting... All of it.

michaelt 5y ago
> the FBI turned ANOM into a giant entrapment scheme They turned it into a giant trap, but entrapment has a specific legal meaning and I'm not sure it applies to the ANOM case.
shadowgovt 5y ago
Given that this is the same country where a whole bunch of harmless video games can't be played by adults because the government will refrain from giving them a rating, having the Australian government call out Meta really does have that "Worst person you know just made a great point" vibe to it. (https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/ https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-kno...)
nostrademons 5y ago
1984 was an instruction manual. Orwell based it off of his experiences writing propaganda for the BBC during WW2. At the time his wife was a censor for the Ministry of Information. He was writing about 1940's Britain, not a hypothetical 1984 Britain.
- Jach 5y ago
  Central to its story is also its inner "The Book", which is very much an instruction manual in the what and the how.
Nextgrid 5y ago
> morons > 1984 was a warning and have mistaken it for a helpful instruction manual It may be a warning to the general population, but it's absolutely an instruction manual for those in power seeking to keep and further refine that power. They are very much not morons but quite the opposite.

michaelt 5y ago

> the FBI turned ANOM into a giant entrapment scheme They turned it into a giant trap, but entrapment has a specific legal meaning and I'm not sure it applies to the ANOM case.

shadowgovt 5y ago

Given that this is the same country where a whole bunch of harmless video games can't be played by adults because the government will refrain from giving them a rating, having the Australian government call out Meta really does have that "Worst person you know just made a great point" vibe to it. (https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/ https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-kno...)

nostrademons 5y ago

1984 was an instruction manual. Orwell based it off of his experiences writing propaganda for the BBC during WW2. At the time his wife was a censor for the Ministry of Information. He was writing about 1940's Britain, not a hypothetical 1984 Britain.

Jach 5y ago
Central to its story is also its inner "The Book", which is very much an instruction manual in the what and the how.

Nextgrid 5y ago

> morons > 1984 was a warning and have mistaken it for a helpful instruction manual It may be a warning to the general population, but it's absolutely an instruction manual for those in power seeking to keep and further refine that power. They are very much not morons but quite the opposite.