Additionally they are looking to criminalise any form of “inciting hate” and are going to be loosening the laws around classifications of terrorist organisations with the stated goal of including a newly forming far right political party under the new definition. View quoted note →

The machine will just keep on pushing. Attention will keep on being snatched away. Narratives give way one to the next. Too exhausting to keep up. No accountability. No real debate. Just an endless slide into the abyss. View quoted note →

Australia's response to the Bondi attack is not surprising but it is truly terrifying. The governments response has been: - Ban Protests - Restrict speech all the way "to the constitutional limit" - New hate speech laws - Increase powers of a newly created taskforce to monitor and crack down on speech All of this comes one week after nation wide teenage social media ban and the slow roll out of a KYC internet.

Testing something. Please excuse me while I zap myself.

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#asknostr Can someone please help me work out how I verify my identity with nostr? Australia’s social media identification laws come into effect in less than one hour and I am worried about getting locked out of my nostr account if I don’t verify my age in time.