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The "online safety" of kids is just an excuse, I suspect. Australia really wants to be able to identify and track the ID of all their citizens online. No more
by RachelF 1y ago
The "online safety" of kids is just an excuse, I suspect.
Australia really wants to be able to identify and track the ID of all their citizens online. No more Internet anonymity for them.
- logicchains 1y agoRecently the Australian government's been talking about creating a national "internet hate" database to record criticism of Israel and the IDF, it's likely in service of that, as anonymity makes it harder to silence dissent.
- graemep 1y agoIts not going to stop at that either. Once they have a database it will be expanded to include more and more.
- exodust 1y ago> "criticism of Israel" Like the death chant marches through Australian city streets, burning synagogues, attacking Israeli restaurants, vandalising, threatening, and shoving socialist-activated Palestinian propaganda marches in our faces every second? That criticism?
- elyobo 1y agoReasonable assumption but really our politicians just are that dumb.
- MonkeyClub 1y agoDumb people don't rise to seats of power. It's more like playing dumb, willfully ignoring the issues to serve ulterior motives.
- spacephysics 1y agoJokingly, it’s not surprising given many of their short-term ancestors were prison guards or criminals. Looks like the ruling gov still sees their citizens as such
- Smoosh 1y ago“England transported an estimated 50,000 to 120,000 convicts and political prisoners, as well as prisoners of war from Scotland and Ireland, to its overseas colonies in the Americas from the 1610s until early in the American Revolution in 1776, when transportation to America was temporarily suspended…” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation?wprov=sfti1#Great_Britain_and_the_British_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation?wprov=sft...