“The focus is going to be on systemic issues, it’s not about moderating content.”Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has claimed her proposed crackdown on misinformation and disinformation would have no impact on the mainstream media…
“And just to be clear, mis and disinformation is information that is verifiably false and causes harm.
“So for example, a piece of misinformation that people should ingest bleach to treat a viral condition is harmful misinformation.
“And you also have, of course, mis and disinformation that comes from bad actors or rogue states acting against Australia’s interests seeking to undermine Australia’s democracy and national security.”
Two weeks ago, the minister used that same bleach analogy to promote the Albanese government’s plan to crack down on free speech – a reference to advocacy falsely attributed to President Donald Trump from April 2020. Not only is her comparison verifiably mendacious, it is also being used to harm citizens and what remains of democracy. In any case, the worst peddlers of misinformation during the ‘pandemic’ were governments. That’s before we even get to the thousands of people now dying from ‘vaccines’ that were forced on the healthy.
The strongest part, seemingly, of Rowland’s justification for a crackdown on free speech (government itself excluded – quelle surprise!, as Gerard Henderson would say – as well as the MSM), is based on a lie, or at least a deliberate misinterpretation of what President Trump actually said!
Irony alert.
If Trump had actually suggested drinking bleach to fight Covid then that would indeed be misinformation, but the only misinformation here is claims from his enemies that he said it.
I am reminded of that betrayer of Liberal/conservative principles (and general all-round Judas), Scott Morrison, and his outrageous non-defence of free speech; “it doesn’t create one job.”
Which pretty much wipes out anything that Australian governments have said these last few years.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! – Isaiah 5:20
Bulldust.
This is all about preventing exposure of the government’s propaganda and lies; the Voice, “climate change,” and Covid laws or similar civil rights infringing laws are three classic examples where the government doesn’t want you to know the truth or dissent from the party line.
This is authoritarianism and thought control of the public, pure and simple.
This is authoritarianism and thought control of the public, pure and simple.
Being done in all the Five Eyes countries simultaneously??
That’s before we even get to the thousands of people now dying from ‘vaccines’ that were forced on the healthy.
How long before people who have lost loved ones start getting their own justice? The “system” still regards the perpetrators as heroes.
Open for public consultation
Hahaha what a waste of words. I really do not like any politician, given all they spruke is lies.
Pat
Lehrmann inquiry findings could be hidden for weeks
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/lehrmann-inquiry-findings-could-be-hidden-for-weeks-20230728-p5drxl.html
So anything stated about the Wuhan flu by the Victorian or Queensland Chief Health Officers in recent years is fine;
but anyone quoting from the large and fast growing body of evidence to the contrary is guilty of misinformation?
To state your proposition, Minister Rowland, is to utterly refute it.
Hawkes Australia Card and Gillards media controls floated in the same week.
Dogs returning to their vomit indeed.
And the ban was first slated by the Morrison government.
I think you’ll find that Morrison was laying the groundwork for it back in the good old days of their Turnbull idiocracy.
Hitler, Stalin and Mao claimed they were acting in their country’s best interests too.
What need for Rowland to imitate globalists legislation promulgating that a population should not ‘ingest bleach’ when bleach bottles already promulgate the same: ‘Do not swallow’. Strangely oracular, too, that warning, when considering ‘professional news content’.
Illinois State dealing with information,
Illinois’s pro-abortion governor signs law to silence crisis pregnancy centers — with $50,000 fines
The UN dealing out information,
UN: Don’t Call It Global Warming, Call It “Global Boiling”
Carl Sagan warning
Carl Sagan predicted from the grave the rise of people like Fauci (video)
The Libs started the national identity card plan as well. They are just as bad as Labor. Too many stupid people here. Is this all about the forthcoming war with China? ID cards, 15 minute limits, no counter opinions, no cash.
Is this all about the forthcoming war with China?
More likely the forthcoming hand-over to China (The CCP do own our politicians / government).
I can picture Them sitting around a table, deciding that the bleach line would be good; and the rest of the dimwitted people grateful to be kept safe.
Is that the plan? Have a referendum to either go to war with China or become part of it?
The West can’t make up its mind whether it loathes China or admires it.
Most of what’s happening in the world at the moment geo-strategically is about the United States coping with China’s rise, wealth and power. Basically, the US is taking over other countries in order to feel bigger about itself.
One word describes it: “colonialism,” 21st century style.
The left: historical colonialism “evil”; modern day leftwing colonialism “good.”
Ashbolt and his groupies turned ‘our’ ABC into a Soviet disinformation machine and it remains so, thirty years after the collapse of the late, unlamented Soviet Union. Evangelicals like to ask ‘what would Jesus do?’ Try asking ‘what would Brezhnev’s propaganda apparatus have said about this issue’ and you get a pretty good prediction of the ABC line. But that doesn’t count as disinformation.
Coming from a government which has never acted in good faith nor been sincere or truthful about anything (the Voice being an example), this is particularly risible and vomit-inducing.
Strangely enough … it always turned out that they were the ones who got to determine what the country’s “best interests” should be. Great system, if you happen to be on the right side of it.
It was coded trolling, Franx. Of all the examples of ‘misinformation’ she could have cited, it was absolutely crucial (in her mind) that she cite one associated (falsely) with Donald Trump.
Yep – we already are:
Jordan Peterson warns that it’s highly likely that the masses will blindly walk into a social credit system.
Video interview with Rita.
Australia badly needs a Trump/Farage disruptor. Unfortunately, we have the Liberal Party.
Good Canadian Government information for kids
In Canada, the youngsters are being indoctrinated into euthanasia doctrine by the state
Tony Abbott spends half his column talking himself up about how much work and how much of the groundwork he and Howard laid for all this.
Oh, but then labor got hold of it and oops, they just are taking it a bit too far. “Who could have known this would happen when I had 40 working groups arranged around changing the constitution to include abos!?” fake-cries Abbott.
The Liberal / Labor Hudge and Gudge twosome in action.
lol wrong thread, same theme though.
Liberals set them up, Labor knock them down. The Australian public sit in the corner watching like cucks.
Great moments in Liberal Party conservatism.
Trudeau is demonic.
Wasn’t sure where else to post this from the Herald Sun (via Black Ball, on Dover’s blog):
Victorian Labor, rotten to the core and laughing at IBAC (and the Victorian public).
And a Pesutto Pole Dance to dignify proceedings!
Victoria, the victim state.
Yes, it was.
If it were not (!), then Rowland, in concern for the citizenry’s ignorance, could have quoted what already exists as the lawfully mandated message on the bottle.