[Media] Censorship

[@Cicada3301AU]

In last night's budget reply speech, Australia's Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton, committed to increased censorship, disguised as a policy to prosecute those uploading content of illegal acts.
The Coalition ramped up censorship, in secret but now proven, in 2020, using the excuse of pandemic and vaccine misinformation as justification.
The current Labor Party Government continues the same censorship protocols, making more draconian moves, using the excuse of extremist content.
The Liberal Party, if elected, has now committed itself to increasing censorship even more.
Do you see what's happening?

[@Cicada3301AU]

Oh look, another delusional Australian politician who thinks they can govern the global internet from State-based legislation.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/ ... 6b49adf117

[@Cicada3301AU]

Need more detail.
But let's be real, the eSafety department hasn't exactly had much success with anything it's done.
In fact, everything it touches it messes up.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/busine ... ab2070b722

[@Cicada3301AU]

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Need more detail.
But let's be real, the eSafety department hasn't exactly had much success with anything it's done.
In fact, everything it touches it messes up.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/busine ... ab2070b722

At the very least, user security and encryption doesn't seem to be the target of the proposed code.

[@Cicada3301AU]

This story bothers me.
This kid is very clearly mentally disturbed, has previously planned a terrorist attack, and has been involved in deradicalization programs (which do nothing to reduce the extreme tendencies of individuals), and they still try and free him of ultimate responsibility for his actions, instead blame the internet for being toxic and extreme.
Bad people with existential extreme ideologies do bad things.
Governments need to stop making excuses, and stop blaming the internet and social networks for everything bad.
It is nothing more than a push to justify more incoming surveillance and censorship laws.
That is what's really going on here and what you should be concerned about.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/syd ... 5jqnk.html

[@Cicada3301AU]

I don't understand the nature of the removal requests, however, if Meta is denying removal requests because it determines them to be baseless censorship requests, then I'm always gonna side with Meta.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/ ... c7106f1525

[@Cicada3301AU]

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Someone at News Corp is really going out of their way to ensure that my comments be censored.
Who did I upset at News Corp?

[@Cicada3301AU]

You know there's serious issues with censorship on a platform when the platform owner engages in self-censorship.
Hey, Elon Musk said what we were all thinking, right?

https://www.qanonsec.com/chan/viewtopic.php?p=629#p629

[@Cicada3301AU]

A new initiative from the Chinese censorship apparatus has removed 4.3+ million "items" of information from the country's internet.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202410/1320911.shtml

[@cipheranarchist]

Under Elon Musk's leadership, X has seen a massive rise in account suspensions.
5.3 million accounts were suspended in the first half of 2024-four times more than before.
While Musk champions free speech, many suspensions are due to safety concerns, harassment, and identity fraud.
The platform faces criticism for inconsistent moderation.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-mu ... ing-2024-9