They really think we’re all idiots & the state is our babysitter Yes it’s real, not AI. She’s Australia’s eSafety commissioner.

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Troy 2 months ago
Being kind online means not infringing on innate rights.
I'm sure every Young person banned from predatory social media platforms is wondering why this deluded grownup thinks she is inmune to their tactics. Go after bad actors, minister, then let's talk about respect.
A. Why is she American if she's Australia's esafety commissioner? B. Are there people out there who watch this and think "great message I'm so grateful, happy online safety day!"?
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capybara 2 months ago
What about a giant *fuck off, mate*, with a beautiful thick aussie accent?
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NiekvanEsch 2 months ago
Obsolete of what really is at play, like most of these 🐑 following the big bad wolfs into darkness convinced by narratives full of lies
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CZIGO 2 months ago
The paradox is that she probably believes she’s doing the right thing.
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umni 2 months ago
I guess this all boils down to: who is better at creating or enforcing regulations — the state or the free market? The difference is that free market regulation has competition, the regulations will better reflect reality, whereas the state will manipulate regulations for self-interest. It is a monopoly and must stop creative destruction or die, which means it must control the source of creative destruction: future minds. State-sanctioned: birth, air, water, food, information, knowledge, freedoms, assisted death. The state controls our inputs in an attempt to control our outputs. But as long as inflation exists, the state will have relevance. Government: “Look how terrible the world is — we must exist for your protection.” Free market: “Look how terrible the world is — let’s try to build endless solutions and let you choose what works.” One is centralising; the other is decentralising. One must reduce agency; the other increases agency. Once inflation is corrected for, this becomes purely a battle of good vs. evil.
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umni 2 months ago
Can a business the come to big to fail? Can a business be "structurally important"? Do monopolies currently exist? Results of central banking.
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Pixel Survivor 2 months ago
the eSafety commissioner is worried about AI deepfakes, not the deepfakes they're already selling us. the state as babysitter? more like the state as art critic, deciding what's "safe" to look at.
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Deleted Account 2 months ago
The irony is obvious: What’s sold as “safety” for younger users has far less to do with protection and far more to do with conditioning. This is about shaping acceptable language. Reinforcing approved narratives. And training people—early—to outsource judgment to authority. That isn’t safety. That’s indoctrination. The architects of centralized moderation don’t trust citizens to think, choose, or disagree. They believe control of speech is control of minds—and history shows they’re right to believe that. That’s exactly why the founders of the United States enshrined freedom of speech: not because speech is harmless, but because power cannot be trusted to decide truth. Decentralized systems matter because they remove the babysitter. They force responsibility back onto individuals—where it belongs. Free speech was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be free from governors of thought.
Isnt this a good thing ? ... this is how people ditch the platforms to set up their own relays and blossoms and clients and npubs and nsecs .. I have no idea why nostriches want to help platforms 😭😭😭
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ZappedBTC 2 months ago
All I heard was Happy go Fock your freedom day ….is that what she really said or did I misheard that?
Sadly, she is head of the Ministry of Useful Idiots. I was going to modify that with "unwitting" but I cannot defend the indefensible.