Yeah, Australia is a dystopia. Set my VPN there and got this ad.
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Well, it's not the exact one, the fine is way smaller than the one you saw. But yes, it appears that the Australian government are paying/working with Google Ad Services to push this kind of threat to people, specifically people who look at pages relating to other countries. Are they scared people will leave and just never return? It's probably fairly likely, considering how people are treated. Even the jabbed have no freedom.
I'd keep the VPN on longer and see how many different ones there are, but the Australian government would probably serve an arrest warrant on me for my posts about myocarditis.
Stop trying to get me arrested.
I do not, thank God. But I think a lot of places have extradition treaties with Australia.
To clarify... There's definitely only one, that we've seen so far, which is this same one.
I just accidentally misquoted, and fucked up the numbers, which is what has confused everyone since. My bad...
There may well be more, though. I'll keep my eye out, and also ask other Aussies ( u/Ricwulf, u/subbookkeeper) if they have seen any others...
Oh no, it was this (exact) one. I was completely off by an order of magnitude, and should probably edit my original comment... Apologies.
What happened, then: I also visited this page, and got this ad. I thought "What the actual fuck?", clicked on it, it took me to the linked page. Presumably the same one you got...
I then went to try and share the image in a post, here. But my phone immediately crashed, taking the screenshots, and the linked page, with it...
So I tried searching for it, and got nothing, except other vague threats of fines and jail time, for various "covid-y" things related to the border, presumably from the same agency. Followed the link again - it wouldn't give me this same ad, the next time.
Then I wrote my comment. Just from memory. I probably shouldn't have quoted it, going off my memory of something I had seen 15-20 minutes earlier, before my phone crashed...
Where the extra digit came in was obviously from my misremembering other fines I had seen, and having incorrectly seen the little A there (for AUD) as an extra number... :-/
It was only after I wrote that, that I was able to reload the page again, get the correct ad, and realise I was wrong.
So... After that very complicated explanation: tl;dr, I accidentally misquoted the figure, by an order of magnitude. Whoops. But you're completely correct, here.
I wonder when fines will actually reach that level. So far, being rich is a way to avoid all of this shit in most countries, where you just pay the fine and do what you want.
Even in Austria, if you can afford to pay the unvax fine, you don't have to vax.
I don't think it'll stay that way.
This, here, people, is what happens when you don't sleep properly (unintentionally), and then have way, way too much caffeine...
Oops. :-/