Victorian state government in Aus did this, too, to track "where antivaxx protesters were coming from - what suburbs were pockets of resistance". And then the news reported it with no sense of irony or self-awareness, and no pushback...
Colour me shocked! Not...
At the same time, Australian news services are running interference for the Kazakh government, unironically calling protesters "terrorists", just like the regime's propaganda, and blaming "outside agitators"...
It's astounding, but you know how autocratic regimes tend to stick together, after all...
Only a matter of time before we (and Canada) become just as bad as the land of Borat... :-/
Victorian state government in Aus did this, too, to track "where antivaxx protesters were coming from - what suburbs were pockets of resistance". And then the news reported it with no sense of irony or self-awareness, and no pushback...
Colour me shocked! Not...
At the same time, Australian news services are running interference for the Kazakh government, unironically calling protesters "terrorists", just like the regime's propaganda, and blaming "outside agitators"...
It's astounding, but you know how autocratic regimes tend to stick together, after all...
Only a matter of time before we (and Canada) become just as bad as the land of Borat... :-/
Australia's got a way to fall yet before it's as morally reprehensible as Israel.