RE: the censorship amendments

Re: The Albanese Government have released an exposure draft of their ‘Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation’ bill which resembles a 1984 style ‘ministry of truth’.

~Senator Babet

The Government has called for submissions, they claim they’d like our thoughts about their proposed amendments, but if you read these amendments, this is not up for debate, for just the suggestion that the Government wants to silence every dissenting online voice, is more than an insult, if they proceed with this, and let’s be honest, we know they will, then it will be an Act of War, perpetrated on the Australian people, and all we should be standing for. An Act of War from our own Government.

In these already censored and heavily surveillanced times, asking us to submit our concerns about why we hope they don’t strip away more of our freedoms, is like a mouse trying to convince the cat, who is playing with it, not to eat it.

The real question isn’t “why we shouldn’t do it,” but how lost are you, you politicians, that you would even suggest such amendments, when from your Parliament House windows you can see our greatest monument to freedom, the Australian War Memorial.

Or perhaps, the question underwr

Re: The Albanese Government have released an exposure draft of their ‘Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation’ bill which resembles a 1984 style ‘ministry of truth’.

~Senator Babet

The Government has called for submissions, they claim they’d like our thoughts about their proposed amendments, but if you read these amendments, this is not up for debate, for just the suggestion that the Government wants to silence every dissenting online voice, is more than an insult, if they proceed with this, and let’s be honest, we know they will, then it will be an Act of War, perpetrated on the Australian people, and all we should be standing for. An Act of War from our own Government.

In these already censored and heavily surveillanced times, asking us to submit our concerns about why we hope they don’t strip away more of our freedoms, is like a mouse trying to convince the cat, who is playing with it, not to eat it.

The real question isn’t “why we shouldn’t do it,” but how lost are you, you politicians, that you would even suggest such amendments, when from your Parliament House windows you can see our greatest monument to freedom, the Australian War Memorial.

Or perhaps, the question underwriting that one, “is what did it take for you to be convinced to betray your own country, your own people?”

For these amendments aren’t a suggestion to keep us safe from our own doubts, they are what they are, . . . treason.