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Australia has been blatantly violating the privacy of its citizens increasingly over the last 2 decades. Its surveillance legislation is unrivaled in developed

Australia has been blatantly violating the privacy of its citizens increasingly over the last 2 decades. Its surveillance legislation is unrivaled in developed countries except for perhaps the UK.

aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
Weird, that's about the same amount of time it's been since they steamrolled all of their guns in the street.
- palmetieri2000 4y ago
  Sigh, I see this pop up so I should really just copy and paste one of my other answers, but. Australians supported handing in our guns after Port Arthur, Australians that want to engage in firearm use for sport, hunting, antique collection or pest control can all still do so within appropriate circumstances that the public overwhelmingly support. Low hanging fruit, moronic, pro-gun sentiment only shows how little you understand about the country you are talking about. (Not an endorsement for the Aus 3-Letters spying, which is a different issue.)
  - CobaltFire 4y ago
    To back you up: I visited Australia while on deployment and the process to go hunting, including the temporary firearms permit and training required, was rather more simple than I’d been led to believe. Getting permission through my CO was harder.
- ChrisLomont 4y ago
  They did no such thing. Australians own more guns than ever. They had a buyback program, and people used it to turn old guns into new ones.
  - aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
    > They did no such thing You folks aren't actually going to make me dig up and link video of the guns being steamrolled, are you?
    - ChrisLomont 4y ago
      You can pull it up. It doesn't change that it was an empty political stunt, that most guns were not in the buyback, that people simply took the buyback money to buy new guns (which you can check at the time by massive gun profits selling guns to Australians), or, as I pointed out above, that there are more guns now than before Port Authur [1]. So go ahead and post the video. Then read the rest of the story. [1] https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/australia-more-guns-now-than-before-port-arthur/ https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/australia-more-guns-n...
- jen729w 4y ago
  That’s right, because if I had a gun I’d be taking it to parliament to demand that they stop [something]! And [something] would surely be different as a result!
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- majormajor 4y ago
  Weird, somehow the United States is mysteriously lacking in armed protest and pushback of their corporation's and government's surveillance, even post-Snowden's reveals of that exact thing against their own citizens.

Australia has been blatantly violating the privacy of its citizens increasingly over the last 2 decades. Its surveillance legislation is unrivaled in developed countries except for perhaps the UK.

aaaaaaaaata 4y ago

Weird, that's about the same amount of time it's been since they steamrolled all of their guns in the street.

palmetieri2000 4y ago
Sigh, I see this pop up so I should really just copy and paste one of my other answers, but. Australians supported handing in our guns after Port Arthur, Australians that want to engage in firearm use for sport, hunting, antique collection or pest control can all still do so within appropriate circumstances that the public overwhelmingly support. Low hanging fruit, moronic, pro-gun sentiment only shows how little you understand about the country you are talking about. (Not an endorsement for the Aus 3-Letters spying, which is a different issue.)
- CobaltFire 4y ago
  To back you up: I visited Australia while on deployment and the process to go hunting, including the temporary firearms permit and training required, was rather more simple than I’d been led to believe. Getting permission through my CO was harder.
ChrisLomont 4y ago
They did no such thing. Australians own more guns than ever. They had a buyback program, and people used it to turn old guns into new ones.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
  > They did no such thing You folks aren't actually going to make me dig up and link video of the guns being steamrolled, are you?
  - ChrisLomont 4y ago
    You can pull it up. It doesn't change that it was an empty political stunt, that most guns were not in the buyback, that people simply took the buyback money to buy new guns (which you can check at the time by massive gun profits selling guns to Australians), or, as I pointed out above, that there are more guns now than before Port Authur [1]. So go ahead and post the video. Then read the rest of the story. [1] https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/australia-more-guns-now-than-before-port-arthur/ https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/australia-more-guns-n...
jen729w 4y ago
That’s right, because if I had a gun I’d be taking it to parliament to demand that they stop [something]! And [something] would surely be different as a result!
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majormajor 4y ago
Weird, somehow the United States is mysteriously lacking in armed protest and pushback of their corporation's and government's surveillance, even post-Snowden's reveals of that exact thing against their own citizens.