by FRED PAWLE – THE Australian mainstream media marked the death of the government’s Censorship Bill today by censoring debate about it.
As hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens celebrated the announcement on Friday evening that the government’s Bill will fail to get the necessary votes when it is presented to the Senate next week, the media resumed its role as the government’s chief tyrannical collaborator by pretending that there were more important things to discuss.
- Politicians and media now find themselves alienated against voters.
- Killing off this hated Censorship Bill doesn’t mean the war is over.
- Sieg heil, Albo.
You can take your pick of trivialities news organisations have today deemed more worthy of homepage prominence than the near death of free speech.
From an investigation into how a particular Barossa Semillon developed its “complex” flavours, “the Sydney suburb where nobody is behind on their mortgage” and a “fake emergency” at Perth Airport to something about the “ancient trade of metallurgy”.
IGNORED
The media collectively ignored the most despotic legislation ever presented to the Australian Parliament because, well, it didn’t apply to them.
The Bill that would have jailed citizens for wrongspeak carved out an exemption for what it called “professional news content”.
Ordinary people would have been jailed for posting comments deemed by apparatchiks as “harmful” to national interest, but journalists working for large companies wouldn’t.
This clause was, and still is, the modern Australian equivalent of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact – two ostensible opponents calling a ceasefire while they enslave and destroy their common enemies – the uppity citizens of Australia and the unregulated, free social media platforms from which they, the citizens, increasingly prefer to seek their news and engage in debate.
Just as the Poles were forced to grudgingly accept the presence of barbaric Nazis, then Soviets, on their streets, Australians too would have been cajoled into conceding that having the government controlling their speech was for their own good. Sieg heil, Albo.
But the killing of this hated Censorship Bill doesn’t mean the war is over.
Rather, it’s merely revealed the opening of hostilities. The government and the mainstream media still resent the people for wishing to speak freely – and social media for allowing them to do so.
They are both still reeling from Donald Trump demonstrating that a charismatic businessman and TV star with an anti-elite agenda can spark a peaceful revolution.
After decades of a cosy symbiotic relationship, the members of the political and media classes now find themselves alienated against the voters/readers they once took for granted.
And they have responded in the only way they know how, by desperately flailing at the levers of power. Are those levers attached to any machinery any more, or are they as fake as the slogans about freedom and independence the media proffers these days?
We are about to find out. Both sides of politics are pressing ahead with a plan to require digital registration for the privilege of using social media in Australia.
PRECIOIUS
It is the sort of State control that provides precious vindication for career politicians, regardless of what side they come from.
While the media is supporting it, not because it makes the internet safer for children but because it punishes their biggest commercial rivals.
Trump’s Vice President-elect, JD Vance, has already said that military alliances with the United States may soon be predicated on shared values of freedom.
If anybody tips Vance off about what’s happening in Australia, he might be tempted to question why Australia shouldn’t be put in the same foreign affairs category as North Korea and Cuba.
Lobbying Senators worked in getting the Censorship Bill killed off. Perhaps for us to win the next round, however, we should be lobbying Vance and the US Congress.PC
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This legislation has gone to the bottom drawer. Minister Rowlands not unlike Albanese in Yes/No sought to actively mislead and obfuscate.
The attack will be renewed if Labor has any capacity post the next election.
Many seem to have missed the next obvious meta data grab with the proposed social media bill. Any person using social media will be required to verify their age with personal identification data on whatever basis SM providers choose. Another meta data grab, condoned by this bill.
This bill must be stopped. The responsibilty should fall to parents, schools and any enabler seeking circumvention.
Kid’s internet censorship is all about every internet user and facial recognition
https://cairnsnews.org/2024/11/22/kids-internet-censorship-is-all-about-every-internet-user-and-facial-recognition/
The MAD Bill is (almost certainly) a dead duck, but now the government wants to shove the ID for online use bill through before the end of the year.
We have today to make our submissions.
That’s right – just one day. And the Liberals support it!
Submit your thoughts here.
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Environment_and_Communications/SocialMediaMinimumAge
This may provide a useful template. Add your own viewpoint so that it doesn’t get dismissed as a copy of a copy of a copy.
https://mckeecreative.store/social-media-age-ban-submission/
These idiots in Canberra keep asking for more butt kicking. Let’s give it to them.
THE CENSORSHIP BILL MUST BE KILLED PERMANENTLY AND IRREVOCABLY
There was no social media at the time and a young child I knew was disrespected and cruelly treated at school – he had some very sad/unfortunate disabilities and he was the victim of a cruel, viscous, abusive teacher and some of the the kids in the class thinking it is funny and doing likewise and some parents adding to the tragedy for this poor disabled child.
Some people – too many sadly, are just cruel, nasty, abusive, bullying bastards and it is them that has to be dealt in each case and it is for the parents of children to monitor all their children – NOT THE GOVERNMENTS’ BLANKET – BANNING OF ALL PEOPLE’S FREEDOM OF SPEECH ON INTERNET PLATFORMS OR ANYWHERE ELSE.
This is full on Dictatorship actions.
This is just Governments’ devious ways of using this to bring about widespread censorship and to shut everyone up who disagrees with Governments’ narratives, agendas and any complaints etc., about any of them.
God help us if these tyrants get their way – we will never be free again in anything if the people sit back and allow them to strangle our voices.
DO ANY OF YOU FOR ONE SECOND, THINK THEY CARE ABOUT ANY OF YOUR CHILDREN OR ANY OF US WHEN THEY ALLOW THIS MURDEROUS CRUELTY/TORTURE OF LIVE FULL TERM ABORTED BABIES – which they voted on to NOT GIVE ANY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO – it’s sickening, it is murder, it is barbaric, it is inhuman for them to do this.
Just reading about this horror you can’t get the images out of your head of these poor little babies screaming themselves to death – it’s absolutely wicked and evil and if they do this to innocent born babies they prove they don’t give a sh*t about humanity / any of us or our children >
’Inhumane deaths’: Aborted babies born alive are being left to die
https://crazzfiles.com/campion-inhumane-deaths-aborted-babies-born-alive-are-being-left-to-die/
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Miles ‘shocked’ by baby attack but leaves newborns to die in hospitals
https://crazzfiles.com/miles-shocked-by-baby-attack-but-leaves-newborns-to-die-in-hospitals/
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Over 700 Babies Left to Die After Botched Abortions in Australia
https://crazzfiles.com/over-700-babies-left-to-die-after-botched-abortions-in-australia/
Abortion free-for-all in Qld
Posted on : 07/09/2024- by The Epoch Times
https://politicom.com.au/abortion-free-for-all-in-qld/
Albo bombs again! Censorship bill doomed
Posted on : 20/11/2024- by Fred Pawle
Excerpt >
by FRED PAWLE – THE Australian mainstream media marked the death of the government’s Censorship Bill today by censoring debate about it.
As hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens celebrated the announcement on Friday evening that the government’s Bill will fail to get the necessary votes when it is presented to the Senate next week, the media resumed its role as the government’s chief tyrannical collaborator by pretending that there were more important things to discuss.
The media collectively ignored the most despotic legislation ever presented to the Australian Parliament because, well, it didn’t apply to them.
Please continue for full story >
https://politicom.com.au/albo-bombs-again-censorship-bill-doomed/
Australia’s misinformation bill dead in the water
The government would need a miracle to turn this around
Rebekah Barnett
Nov 19, 2024
https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/breaking-australian-governments-misinformation
MAD (Misinformation Disinformation Bill) Must Go – with Senator Alex Antic
Join our trio of experts Katie Ashby-Koppens with Jody Clune, founder of NERA (National Electoral Representatives Alignment), and Senator Alex Antic, on Monday 18 November at 7.00PM AEDT to unpack the proposed Communications Legislation Amendment (Combating Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024 (aka MAD Bill), and hear how Senator Antic is involved and taking action.
Mon, 18 November 2024 7pm AEDT
https://alignedcouncilofaustralia.com.au/events/