Australia's eSaftey Commissioner gives the censorship game away on Q+A
Amid bipartisan calls to tighten the screws on social media platforms in Australia, an appearance by the eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, on TV panel show Q+A accidentally gave the game away.
The least absurd of the three highlighted poll results, but I still strongly oppose it if for no other reason than we know they'll expand it to other age groups and other areas of the internet.
What the fuck is wrong with Australians?? I don't know who responds to their "YouGov" polls. Maybe the results are skewed? Because if not, holy shit...
Just be honest and come out against free expression because literally anything can be considers harmful to someone somewhere
Also, I'd imagine it includes the death of online anonymity built in. You'd need some way to verify your age, if you're blocking any age. This is the same issue with the 'banning minors from watching porn' bills we've seen. Good in theory...but hits everyone, and kind of kills the internet.
I don't want kids on the internet (or watching porn); I don't think it's good for them. But it's up to the parents, not the government. Government gets involved, it just ruins it for everyone.
Probably a combination of skewed polling...and skewed people. It's about culture; if you're brought up in a culture that doesn't value free speech, and that trusts the government...of course you'd want the government to come in and save you. If you're already licensing everything else, and already have censorship boards, and you're fine with that...why not apply it to the internet too?! Progress! We'll all be better off! *barf*
These polls are usually worded in such a way to lobby for what the Government wants. Ultimately what they want are national Intranets but that will take time so until then it's a heavily regulated Internet where Government decides what is "truth" and what is "safe".
Any kind of polling that is specifically trying to show support for something is going to be as cooked as possible.
To give you an idea of how easy this is. Ask 100 people, "if someone publishes porn of you online without your consent, should the government be able to order it taken it down for you?" How many are going to say no? If you say yes, you
Simple, right?
That's a trifecta, so I'm going to hazard a guess and say really, really not good stuff.
Nobody ever asks me what I think. Where do they find these respondents?
And of course she's a WEF stooge:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/julie-inman-grant/