I know it's tempting to say this is planned, but honestly they just see maliciously incompetent.
You don't silence the 'circus' from a position of strength, the left have lost both political and cultural narrative and like in politics they move to shut down in a tantrum not realising for culture, you try that and another country easily fills that void.
It can easily be both. Someone who wanted this outcome know how badly the gov would bungle things and simply set up the dominoes to fall precisely like this.
Every western government is filled with useful idiots to a third party that is undermining them. 80 years ago, that third party determined that white peoples having their own countries would inevitably lead to them electing the next Hitler for no reason whatsoever. To avoid this, they decided to genocide all white peoples and give them no excuse not to elect the next Hitler.
It's planned. Not the move towards China per se but in general.
Ban something for a large group (A). There will be many complainers but the majority will still fall in line.
Some, group B, will put in the effort to find alternatives. When you crack down on those, the people from (A - B) will not care enough anymore because it no longer affects them. This makes the crackdown easier.
Repeat as necessary. Become more aggressive and authoritarian every time because more of the population has accepted the new status quo.
The next step will be to require all "social media" platforms to register in AU before they can be on the app stores. Then they will start expanding the definition of "social media" to include all means of communication. Every policy doubles as a trial balloon and they're always aiming for the same finish line.
I know it's tempting to say this is planned, but honestly they just see maliciously incompetent.
You don't silence the 'circus' from a position of strength, the left have lost both political and cultural narrative and like in politics they move to shut down in a tantrum not realising for culture, you try that and another country easily fills that void.
It can easily be both. Someone who wanted this outcome know how badly the gov would bungle things and simply set up the dominoes to fall precisely like this.
So the Australian government are useful idiots to a third party looking to undermine them, I can believe that.
Every western government is filled with useful idiots to a third party that is undermining them. 80 years ago, that third party determined that white peoples having their own countries would inevitably lead to them electing the next Hitler for no reason whatsoever. To avoid this, they decided to genocide all white peoples and give them no excuse not to elect the next Hitler.
That didn't work as Black Adolf Hitler was officially elected this year..
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They trully do think that people are finally lulled and complacent.
It's planned. Not the move towards China per se but in general.
The next step will be to require all "social media" platforms to register in AU before they can be on the app stores. Then they will start expanding the definition of "social media" to include all means of communication. Every policy doubles as a trial balloon and they're always aiming for the same finish line.