By Jo Nova
Spare a moment to celebrate the outstanding bravery of Elon Musk, and how much he risked to play a key role in this historic election. It was all or nothing…
In the end, it was a semi-professional Diablo 4 gamer who proved the Great Game-Changer pic.twitter.com/AVKKQGKtzl
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) November 6, 2024
The Australian Government wants to stop people talking on X and on this blog
The same day America votes to be the Land of the Free — Australia is passing laws to fine and imprison people from saying something the government disagrees with. Soon we will not be allowed to point out side effects and risks of “public health” measures, nor say anything that damages faith in our bankers. 100% of vaccines are 100% good and central banks are not insolvent!
The deceptive Australian Labor Party snuck through the Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill 2024 (MAD Bill) under the pandemonium of the US Election day news. Perhaps they were just embarrassed their billion dollar ABC news is such an abject failure at stamping out *misinformation* because no one watches it anymore. Or maybe they hid the Misinformation Bill because they knew Australians would not like being treated like babies who can’t figure out the truth for themselves. The Albanese government went out of its way to introduce a special standing order to get around the normal parliamentary process. It will be in the Senate on Monday next week!
If citizens say something the government deems to be misinformation, huge fines will apply to social media, blogs and forums. Instead of having the implicit right to criticize the government we will need to “prove” our comments were scientific, religious or satirical in a court of law. How many lawyers do you have?
Ultimately, only the rich will be allowed to speak, and forums like X — the citizens news service, will have to guess what is considered misinformation this week. For more details on this see Tony Nikolic’s post at Maryanne Demasi’s blog.
He quotes John F Kennedy and Franklin D Roosevelt:
When the government becomes the sole arbiter of truth, it opens the door to corruption and tyranny. When citizens are too afraid to speak out, the government with its cheerleading bureaucracy and corporate sector can operate without accountability, leading to an erosion of trust in institutions.
SIGN the PETITION TO OPPOSE THE BILL
It is no coincidence the cowardly Australian Labor Party is also writing up legislation to pretend to save children under 16 from bullying on social media by banning them completely. It is, of course, just an excuse to force X, and Facebook et al to require ID checks on every single user — how else will they prove the users are over 16?
The Labor Party don’t want anonymous critics or whistleblowers. The protests have just begun.
This is brilliant! @JAGtalks via Craig Kelly
SNEAKY, GREASY, ALBANESE.
The song for all patriotic Australian’s watching their rights and free speech being taken from them. pic.twitter.com/L8u6tWuzmU— JAG Talks (@JAGtalks) November 7, 2024
Comment of the day :
Elon is such a dumbass. He spent $44 billion on Twitter and all he got was control of all 3 branches of the federal government.
— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) November 6, 2024
h/t to David Maddison, Panda, The IPA — the Institute of Public Affairs.
In Australia, saying something the government disagrees with is better known as ‘Telling the Truth’.
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For a Government that continually gets things wrong how can it claim to be the arbiter of truth. ACMA is the biggest worry for it seems to have the authority to haul people before it. Recall the AHRC and the control freaks who ran it. The opposition must reject this and seek to annul it in government. For God’s sake Dutton get your act together.
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To the Aus Govt. GFY
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We don’t need Elon, we need Keanu at this stage. 😆
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LOLas they have NFI.
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Sneaking in, if the legislation contained measures Labor believed would gain them support they would be bragging about it.
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The ambivalence is palpable. Mr Musk’s autistic aversion to falsehoods and confabulation. Contrasting the fact that he is harvesting the “Green Deal” bigly. He is a 5th dan Troll along with Mr Trump.
The timing of the bill whilst attention was diverted is a tell. The MSM operation paperclip is defunct, they have capitulated. The boot stomping on the face for eternity is about to descend.
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Why won’t Australian Voters pay attention to things that really matter?
MSM is part of the problem for sure but there are other sources of information if people will only look.
I have made many attempts to introduce my friends to the JoNova blog but I think they only glanced at it once or twice and then went back to reading The Age and watching the ABC!!
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Most Aussies do not want to think (or know how to) for themselves.
They like to lead an oblivious life believing what politicians tell them and conforming to them.
I do not understand why ordinary Australians think that politicians (selected by their political parties, not by us) are qualified or smart enough to run a country and make decisions for all of us. Especially as parliament uses a simple majority to pass broad social issues that affect 100% of us, but maybe only 50.1% agree with – so the other 49.9% must follow, that is not a clear majority. Social issues should require at least 55/45 but 60/40 is better. For financial issues, a simple majority is probably acceptable, but not for social issues.
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A lot of Australians do not want anything to do with politics or politicians. Which is why we had to introduce compulsory voting as the vote had dropped to 16% in WA. Now they get instant opinions from their only news sources.
However the writers of our Constitution made it very difficult for politicians and their enablers to seize power by making fundamental changes very difficult. Thus the fake Voice which was never about aboriginals, as if that is not clear now. Albanese could not care less about aboriginals.
What is redressing the balance is the internet, where you can get news without being filtered through very biased leftist journalists.
And then you get the doctor class who do not have time. Or worse still are surrounded by Union workers and live in fear of the WorkSafe people, so they cannot offend their litigious staff.
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I would still contend that legislation like the disinformation/misinformation bill should be carried by more than a parliamentary simple majority as it affects the social fabric of Australia. So a simple majority where maybe 49.95% of the politicians or public disagree/oppose does not represent consensus.
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My son is a biased leftist journalist – but I am working on him – given he now owns more property than I do, and my grandson is a biased Greenie who believes everything the far left tells him – although he is highly intelligent – our Christmas arguments are legendary!
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There’s no doubt we now live in a world of inversion. There was once a time when the Australian Labor Party represented the little bloke (or woman). That they understood the only way to stand up to big money, big corporate was to unionise and to have some safety in numbers. Part of that “movement” was the belief in things like freedom of speech or the ability to say things against governments and corporate interests. Because the voice of the people and their opinions needed to be heard. But similar to the US democrats the ALP have done a complete 180 and now, if anything, seemed to be more aligned with big corporate and big government. To hell with the little bloke/woman, what would they know and who cares about little things like human rights anyway- as Dan Andrews said, they are overemphasised. So here we have the ALP politicians with their supposed union background all out to reduce citizens freedom of speech abilities. There’s something really sus about this whole MAD legislation, mainly because it appears bi-partisan as the LNP were the original architects of the moves. (Paul Fletcher. LNP Communications Minister). Is this a situation where the bureaucracy are forcing the politicians into this legislation after the COVID bollocks?
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Done that blog rip yet Jo?
For posterity and future reading.
Maybe that offshore hosting?
Oh well…
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We did one months ago, but what mine ended up as, was a mass of code, I haven’t investigated how to translate.
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Perhaps we communicate using the approved Newspeak doublethink then subtly add /s
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How did I get here… all I did was follow a wascally wabbit… I know nussink.
Praise Authority! Love Subservience!
Hail Albotrough!
/snoop
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Satire is exempt. Here and everywhere we need a facility to state “Everything I say is satire” on our profile. Failing that, can the ‘s’ in /s mean satire, or do we have to create a new symbol. Perhaps #s?
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How’s about s#it
or will that offend non-binary its?
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I would like to invert his somewhat. The BS the Government pulls on us should be able to be traced directly back to the person that dreamed it up. We are being kontrolled by faceless beaurocrazies that refuse to take any responsibility for their behaviour. That is an ID law that I could support.
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For a Government that continually gets things wrong how can it claim to be the arbiter of truth. ACMA is the biggest worry for it seems to have the authority to haul people before it. Recall the AHRC and the control freaks who ran it. The opposition must reject this and seek to annul it in government. For God’s sake Dutton get your act together.
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I have signed the Petition. God help us!
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And then, there are the “anti-coercion” laws.
VERY specifically, these do NOT apply to the “government or any of its “agencies”.
Par for the course.
I have contended for some time that the “fundamental precept” of the preesumption of innocwnce is DEAD ans buried.
The core “principles” of the Napoleonic Code arrived with a vengeance DECADES ago.
Basically, Basically framed:
“You must be guilty.
You would not have been investigated / arrested / charged / convicted otherwise.
The state is supreme..
Ayn Rand had some words to say about this in “Atlas Shrugged”:
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against… We’re after power and we mean it… There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
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Should this become law, will the dumb protesters be jailed for disagreeing with Government policy on numerous issues?
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Please also pay attention to the Trojan Horse of the Bill to prevent children under 16 from using social media.
Few argue with that in principle, but that is not its true purpose.
Its purpose is to compel full identification of ALL social media users – to eliminate privacy, and generate lists of dissenting voices.
The only way of enforcing this proposed law is to compel full identification of all social media users, for each and every account, thus tracking your opinions, comments, and then coming after you for non compliance.
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My thoughts exactly! How else can they police it?
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So what they will do is
Encourage platforms that do not require robust id telegram comes to mind
encrypting everything will become standard
TOR LOKINET and VPN’s will become standard practice
Decentralized social media protocols like Nostr will become the norm
hosting blogs offshore will be come standard
Kids will become very internet savvy
This will backfire
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The pendulum is swinging in the opposite direction now . As the MSM is starting to realise that its irrelevant it will have to change or go under . The internet has changed the media landscape and the truth can leak out and get heard by a growing audience – this blog is an example . Its growing popularity along with podcasts allow for all views to be explored . The government by trying to censor what we can look at contains the assumption that we are cretins who cannot think for ourselves .
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The ‘tell’ in this legislation is that politicians and their approved news outlets are excluded from being held to account for their utterings.
What is good for the goose should be good for the gander.
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The ABC is guilty of misinformation and disinformation on climate change, but if we focus on the Bill’s six categories of harm, aunty has no case to answer.
election interference;
harming public health, including preventative health measures;
vilification of individuals or groups with certain characteristics;
intentionally physically injuring an individual;
imminent damage to critical infrastructure or disruption to emergency services; and
imminent harm to the Australian economy.
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Joe Rogan with 47 million views meant Donald Trump did not have to pander to journalists to reach 47 million voters.
Melania Trump with America’s best seller meant she did not have to pander to book reviewers.
Donald Trump’s success with voters meant they ignored the main stream media which universally pilloried Trump.
And Donald Trumps’ success was against a major prejudice where most women, half the population, would really like to see a woman President. Who wouldn’t?
Except one like Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, Angela Merkel, Indira Gandhi. Even very qualified but deplorable Hillary Clinton.
Not a dropkick opportunist like Kamala Harris who has no children, was given all jobs without being qualified, married at 50 presumably to get into Federal politics in 2016. Not black, not Indian, not European and with neither parent born in America. A woman who does not acknowledge her own living father, she is entirely the wrong model for women anywhere. And in all her time as VP and Candidate, did not and likely could not answer a single question!
The legacy press are now history. And Hollywood. AI will take all their jobs. And AI Harrison Ford will live forever. He may even run for the senate. Of the Alliance.
Of course the Marxists have to control the internet. It’s their only hope to suppress the truth.
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Our very own Anthony Albanese is following President Lula of Brazil in his attempt to control the internet. But Australia does not have any satellites. Elon Musk’s Starlink has 6,426 satellites. We were about to launch one for our own defence, but decided to pump water uphill instead. It shows Australians do not have the smartest politicians in the world.
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And great news.. “Senate Republicans must choose a new leader to take over from Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). That election is set for November 13 and will include newly elected senators.” The end of an era of Chinese interference in the Senate.
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A re-branding is called for.
JoNova’s Blog becomes . . .
JoNova’s Satirical Musings + Friends [JNSMF]
More inventive names are shirley possible. 😉
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Shirley not!
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Interestingly the Government has exempted itself from this censorship law.
As the main purveyor of misinformation, they will continue to do propagate it
I documented large amounts of Australian Government misinformation in my submission against the bill. See https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/acma2023-31735-david-s-maddison.pdf
The only place you truly have to worry about as a source of disinformation is the Australian Government itself.
And don’t forget this was a Uniparty law.
It was first introduced by the fake conservative Liberal Party, as was the e Safety Kommissar.
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Elon Musk.
Please save us.
Perhaps you can provide us with an uncensored free speech feed of X and other information from your Starlink satellites with some sort of anonymous payment facility?
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X is working almost like an uncensored outlet already via “Community notes”. It’s not 100% because you get stooges authoring, but it seems then those stooges are very quickly found out. The beauty of community notes is that they remain with the original contentious post. X almost doesn’t need censors, because it has become self regulating. Musk is a really clever cookie and obviously has smart people working for him.
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Why can’t censored information just be fed to the Left?
After all, they’re the ones who are terrified of other peoples’ free speech.
Let the thinking community read as they please and make up their own minds.
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Sums it up:
https://imgbox.com/xhJxgONk
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President Trump, please save thinking Australians.
Please allow educated, productive, financially independent Australians come to your country as political refugees and we will help Make America Great Again.
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Uh huh..
Unfortunately we need to save ourselves just like the USA did and that starts with political parties not there for the power, prestige, or personal agendas, but ones that have the expertise, competence and true desire to do what’s right, not be NWO puppets, and to say it YET again, there’s no such party anywhere to be seen.
The majority of the USA woke up in time, but here 80% are watching cooking and home reno shows, oblivious.
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…and in breaking news, Albo has announced the recommended age tests for social media, comprising 2 questions.
1. What is a CD?
2. What is Napster?
😆😆
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