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Australia's changing how it regulates the internet and no-one's paying attention
- jaimex2 4y agoLikely because they try every few years and reach the same futile ending.
- nsonha 4y agoindeed, 5 hours and 2 comments including this one.
- gcau 4y agoHow dystopian does it sound that a "eSafety Commissioner" decides what is "harmful" for you to look at. A food safety commissioner banning harmful food is good, but this is an unelected person deciding what we can and can't look at, under the guise that looking at something on the internet can be harmful. Total bs. She probably gets paid so so much of our money to do absolutely nothing, it's infuriating. If you live in Australia, make sure you use CloudFlare DNS, or anything except the default.
- bogantech 4y agoA commissioner that worked in US Congress and government relations at Microsoft, nothing suss
- prottog 4y agoAnd so the safety state ever expands. Why do so many people think that the role of government is to promote "safety" at so great a cost?
- daveoc64 4y agoTo play devil's advocate - why do you not think that is the government's responsibility?
- prottog 4y agoTo a reasonable degree, yes, but recent governments around the world have made it their number one priority; see the responses to Covid, where preventing one more death from Covid seemingly was worth whatever the cost may be. Maybe it's just my inner American, but I believe government was not formed to protect me from my own decisions, and me from the decisions of others provided that they do not directly and materially harm me. The more reasonable explanation, I suppose, is that government seeks to preserve and grow its own power, and often does so in the guise of public safety.