Australian Government Is Urged To Include News Outlets In Censorial Social Media Crackdown On “Misinformation”

If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Apparently, the once beacons of true democracy around the world these days just can’t get a break trying to stuff some authoritarian narrative into their supposedly “liberal narratives.” So, in trying to guess who one of these may be – too easy. Here’s Australia. The now long-standing – and the world-witnessing Australia’s federal, and some of its state governments, letting their “authoritarian flower” blossom during the Covid pandemic – is not the whole story. Of course not the whole country, at every level, has gone off the (political and ideological) deep end. But those who try to fight back face an uphill battle ahead, for sure. First – and for the rest of the world to know – what Australia’s current federal government is doing is imposing a media law that seems to only target “misinformation” on social media. And now, seeing how traditional media might still continue with their information – there are those in Australia’s governmental structures who would like to have these rules expanded. After all – say Greens, independent MPs Zali Steggall, Zoe Daniel and the media law academic Michael Douglas – what’s it all good for, if outfits like New Corp can still go on reporting what they see fit? You would have never guessed it, but a free press presenting different opinions is now considered a “growing threat to our democracy” by Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young – and…Australian Government Is Urged To Include News Outlets In Censorial Social Media Crackdown On “Misinformation”