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It might be free speech in the USA but Australia is a sovereign nation with its own legal system so nobody cares what people in the US think.
by shirro 2y ago
It might be free speech in the USA but Australia is a sovereign nation with its own legal system so nobody cares what people in the US think.
- ChoHag 2y ago[dead]
- potatoicecoffee 2y agono yanks in the thread
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoWe are not debating sovereignty. We are debating the absurdity of Australian law, which is increasingly authoritarian, and has no principled protection of free speech.
- shirro 2y agoUS ideals of free speech are not required for a functional democracy and misunderstandings about the universality of US laws leads to misunderstandings online and does need to be corrected unfortunately. IMO Australia desperately needs better protections of political speech but that has been debated for years and some people have the view that political speech is best protected at the ballot box. Only a small minority of Australians would believe freedom of political speech should be extended to protect sexual abusers. Australia is not close to being authoritarian. It is a liberal democracy with very fair elections. There is an unhealthy media concentration and our lopsided economy creates an environment where certain industries have too much political influence but that isn't unusual amongst our peers either and something we need to work on.