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Daily reminder: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison claims that China is oppressing him with memes, and also routinely claims that Chinese people don’t have enough freedom.
The Morrison government’s proposed Surveillance Bill could be used to target everyone from Black Lives Matter campaigners to underage kids illegally downloading movies, critics have warned.
Victorians Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe told The New Daily that the sweeping powers proposed by the Bill have “far-reaching implications for grassroots activists, and people standing up for their rights”.
“No one’s safe under these new laws,” Senator Thorpe said.
“It will affect grassroots communities across the country, it will affect children. It will affect anybody who downloads a movie illegally over the internet – they could go to jail for five years.”
The proposed legislation gives the Australian Federal Police, the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and, through those bodies, the Australian Signals Directorate three new powers to investigate and disrupt criminal activity online.
Under the laws, authorities could hack, secretly takeover, and add, copy, and delete material on computers and digital accounts anywhere in the world without the account-holder’s knowledge or consent.
Black Lives Matter campaigners, climate and forest activists, and others who use social media to protest and organise could “be subjected to these invasive new laws that allow government agencies to infiltrate people’s social media platforms, change the wording, and have complete control over people’s personal social media platforms,” Senator Thorpe said.
She slammed the Bill as “just another way that [Home Affairs Minister Peter] Dutton is trying to stay relevant by bringing in these these laws that are intrusive into people’s lives”.
“It’s an invasion of privacy, it’s a breach of human rights, and it’s more reason that we need a bill of rights in this country,” Senator Thorpe said.
“This government has a very bad track record on human rights violations … and then introduce these sweeping laws that are about spying on their own community.”
Mr Dutton introduced the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identity and Disrupt) Bill to parliament last Thursday and argued that the new legislation is needed to crack down on child sexual abuse and terrorism offences perpetrated under the cover of the dark web.
At some point, I think the entire narrative of “we are opposed to China and Russia because they don’t have enough freedom” is going to have to change.
At some point, even the dullest normie is going to have to acknowledge that whatever the core values of our society are, “freedom” is definitely not among them.
I guess the more logical core value that governments could promote at this point would be “safety.”
Absolutely, the entire coronavirus paradigm is that safety is more important than freedom, and the coronavirus is now the defining factor of our entire civilization.
