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Letโs start at the beginning.
Governments that censor are NEVER the good guys:
And they censor for one main reason:
Here in Australia we live in a โdemocracyโ.
That means we have representatives inside the government who can find out when they are trying to censor us.
Last year one of our best Senators named Alex Antic asked some government departments about how they were censoring during Covid.
And what response did Senator Antic get back from the government departments?
So then he filed a โFreedom of Informationโ request:
In response, the government pulled the olโ switcherooโฆ
โฆand sent Senator Antic 28 pages of information that looked like this:
So the โFreedom of Informationโ inquiry by a Senator into censorship
LOL.
But our hero (Antic) had a few superpowers up his sleeve.
He summoned the censors to a Senate hearing:
Video, 4 mins. Department of Home Affairs Senate Testimony, May 2023
The testimony, provided by a man by the name of Michael Pezzullo and a few others, was a masterclass in government gobbledygook.
Pezzullo and the others worked overtime to obscure the special censorship side deals they have made with the tech companies.
But Jiminy can translate for us
โFascismโฆis a merger of state and corporate powerโ.
-Benito Mussolini, 1939
A government that lies to and silences us is not worthy of our support.
And their noses are getting bigger by the day
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Awesome