A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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[–] freedickpics@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

See people here want gambling ads banned, but the PM has ties to gambling lobby groupa so the gov won't touch it. But when it comes to laws nobody wants like giving cops more invasive surveillance power the government can suddenly expedite them at record speed. We live in a fake democracy

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah the speed with which the social media minimum age law was passed was astonishing. The public had just 24 hours to make submissions, and those submissions—thousands of them—were given just 4 hours of consideration by the parliamentary committee.

Not an invasive surveillance power, but an extremely untransparent piece of rushed legislation that's already proving an abject failure as predicted by the many critics.

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[+] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

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[–] techpeakedin1991@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I’m starting to question whether the free press should even exist, or can exist under capitalism.

It cannot. To begin with, having one rich fuck have their voice be amplified to a thousand or a hundred thousand times that of the average person, merely because their wealth allows them to buy and therefore control media, is obviously not democratic.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago

Also groups like clubs NSW are too big and too corrupt

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