Posted on 08/29/2021 7:32:19 PM PDT by Trillian
If you were wondering what a tyrant like Stalin or Mao would do in the age of technology, take a look down under.
The Australian parliament passed unprecedented legislation that gives federal police near-unrestricted powers to spy on any Australian citizen – by gaining access to their social media and email accounts without their knowledge – if they have been ‘suspected of criminal activity.’
The totalitarian “Identify and Disrupt” bill creates 3 new types of “data disruption” warrants that the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission can use to copy, delete and modify content on individuals online accounts.
Federal authorities will be able to impersonate the account holder and send emails or messages to their online correspondents.
The measure easily passed the senate with sweeping support despite legislators failing to set up proper safeguards that were recommended by a bipartisan joint committee.
Warrants that are issued will not even need to be signed off by a judge or magistrate, they will only need to be issued by the government’s Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Crazy.
How will anyone be able to prove government inserted a post they are then going after them for?
Ripe for abuse/framing/setups.
The book “1984” was a warning, not an instruction manual.
Aussie leadership has gone completely bonkers; totally insane. It’s time for the truckers to make good on their threat to go on strike and shut Ozland down until sanity is restored.
Is that like a Star Chamber?
The difference between America and Australia is that Australia openly admits it. Unlike federal agencies here in America. Its one thing Snowden revealed and clapper reluctintly admitted.
It could also work the other way if there are any honest courts left.
“I never posted that. I didn’t send that email.”
When the government assumes the power to alter any electronic message then none of them should be admissible evidence in a court of law. All would reasonably be suspect of tampering.
I mean, a guy in Colorado built a friggin' tank and bulldozed city hall and other buildings back in 2004. I just watched the documentary on that.
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It's almost as if that doesn't even happen in the US.
Have the Australians come to the realization that when they gave up their guns, they gave up their freedom?
Hope so.
I mentioned on an earlier thread that, if we weren’t in the Twilight Zone now, this is the kind of thing where the United States would be offering the Aussies our help in fighting this tyrannical coup.
Wow. Australia’s gone down the fascist toilet very quickly.
Your average Aus wants their freedom and to not be a inmate.
Perhaps this will finally wake them up to realize WHY guns were confiscated.
Its to keep them from taking back their country.
Yep!
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But only if criminal activity is suspected. Guess who gets to decide what is criminal activity and what isn’t?
It is scary.
A government employee can gain access to an account of a person they do not like and make up posts making that person guilty of a crime. That person can be sent to jail or given the death penalty.
It seems like China took over Australia.
I just saw this yesterday.. it is a nightmare they are trying to bring here..
From NotTheBee - teens being arrested for going to the beech, man hunt for guy who leaves his apartment.
https://notthebee.com/article/this-news-clip-from-australia-is-unbelievably-dystopian
Read later.
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