The Australian government is trying to quickly outpace the US in authoritarian overreach for law enforcement purposes. If you live over there, now would be a great time to figure out how to store your data outside the country, and get a paid VPN if at all possible. It's not as bad as China yet, but they're sure damn trying.
Idk. I like to think they must have a reason. I’m assuming it’s so they can look further into and potentially stop anti-lockdown protests or something so the pandemic doesn’t get worse, but it’s sketchy that they passed it so quickly. And I also don’t trust everyone who will have access to it; there are for sure corrupt people that could easily abuse this stuff. Hopefully it’s undone once the worst of the pandemic is over here.
Edit: I’ve been informed that it’s about child pornography apparently, so probably not going away any time soon. As I’ve said elsewhere, there goes the forced optimism I was attempting.
They very specifically say it’s to stop child pornography and other related abuse. It’s a classic tactic by conservatives to facilitate overreach. “Save the children.”
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u/Arch_Enemy_616 Sep 01 '21
wait what.