Should parliament be foolish enough to pass legislation that will essentially make ACMA the official censor of the internet, it will be to the eternal detriment of our ability to hold politicians and bureaucrats to account, writes Nick Cater
Since prickly, contagious viruses don't appear that often, they'll have to find a different excuse for the next crisis.
It is a tactic straight out of the autocrat’s playbook: a suggestive narrative that feeds the collective anxiety about a threat so big that only the government can save us. . . Picture: Getty Images Daniel Andrews managed to hold on to emergency powers for 903 days and Xi Jinping for somewhat longer, but as the virus became less deadly, it became less potent as an instrument of fear.Falsehoods spread through cyberspace can never be conquered, and digital technology can never be disinvented anymore than gunpowder.
The claim of Russian disinformation was first deployed to undermine their enemy Donald Trump and then used to dismiss the Hunter Biden laptop story and protect his father.
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