Backbone Australia

Encouraging entrepreneurs, politicians and individuals to stand tall and speak out.

[Backbone Australia @BackboneAus]

@prestonjbyrne For the sake of everyone, not just Americans, who value the free and open internet, Congress needs to pass the Granite Act.

[Backbone Australia @BackboneAus]

@AlmostMedia @austincampbell What you're describing isn't even a hypothetical. Graham Linehan (Irish citizen) was arrested at Heathrow last year.

[Backbone Australia @BackboneAus]

@ChartUpdate @prestonjbyrne The UK and EU are allergic to innovation.

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

This is Australia's response to the U.S. resistance to foreign censorship. The censors can't get their orders domesticated here.

So what they'll do is let anyone sue the platforms and abuse the Hague Service Convention to serve Americans.

Congress: PASS THE GRANITE ACT.

[Backbone Australia @BackboneAus]

Great interview here with @TopherField and @prestonjbyrne on censorship in Australia.
https://t.co/U40ujyGVry
#auspol

[Backbone Australia @BackboneAus]

Michael Shellenberger is doing better work on this issue than 99% of Australian journalists.
#auspol

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

EXCLUSIVE: New censorship legislation would let the Australian government spy on US & European citizens and report "sensitive information" about their lawful political opinions, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and health records to foreign spy agencies, including the FBI.

[Backbone Australia @BackboneAus]

@prestonjbyrne For the sake of the free internet, Congress needs to kick these censorship zealots in the teeth.

[Backbone Australia @BackboneAus]

@LeeRespecter Pure coincidence, I'm sure.

[Backbone Australia @BackboneAus]

@TopherField @prestonjbyrne is a rock star

[Backbone Australia @BackboneAus]

Careful Will. Next you'll have them trying to ban flying.

[Will Shackel @ShackelWill]

This was the radiation on my flight.

If I were standing outside a nuclear power plant the radiation would probably be around 0.05µSv/h.

I'm never flying again.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

there is not a single person in government alive today who has improved my life even a fraction as much as amazon. and most have made it worse.

[Backbone Australia @BackboneAus]

Another great video from John Stossel. Probably one of the best journalists working today.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

The US Government spent billions building electric vehicle.

They built 400 over five years.

How many did @ElonMusk's @Tesla build in the same timeframe?

35,000!

And activists want government to take more of his money?

[stevenmarkryan @stevenmarkryan]

The Truth About Elon's Wealth

[Backbone Australia @BackboneAus]

@LeeRespecter My guess is it's not because he makes a mean brisket.

[Backbone Australia @BackboneAus]

Every time I think the UK can't get more authoritarian...

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

Ofcom indicated in a hearing today that it is going to start pushing for arrest warrants for American refusers of the Online Safety Act.

It is wildly inappropriate for a foreign country to threaten Americans for exercising our constitutional rights.

https://t.co/asNsZ7J9Hd

[Backbone Australia @BackboneAus]

@prestonjbyrne Fingers crossed that they do it sooner rather than later. I can't wait to see the look on these censors' faces when they realize that all of their hard work has been flushed down the toilet.

[Backbone Australia @BackboneAus]

@ChaneyforCurtin We need less safetyism now, not more.

[Backbone Australia @BackboneAus]

@LeeRespecter On the one hand, the government claims that AI is going to be the magic bullet that solves the productivity crisis (whilst ignoring tax and IR issues). At the same time, they're actively trying to introduce harsh restrictions on AI.

The cognitive dissonance is extraordinary.

[Luckey Faraday @luckeyfaraday]

“AI is for lazy people.”

Yes. Exactly.

Lazy people invented almost everything worth having.

Someone was too lazy to carry things, so we got the wheel. Too lazy to wash clothes by hand, so we got the washing machine. Too lazy to do math on paper, so we got the calculator. Too lazy to walk, so we got the car.

Every great invention in history started with someone saying “I really don’t want to do this anymore.”

Hard work was never the goal.

It was the price we paid because we didn’t have anything better.

Now we do.

Call me lazy all you want.

I’m in very good company.

[Backbone Australia @BackboneAus]

This country is run by people living in the 20th century. Embarrassing
#auspol

[CAMERONWILSON @cameronwilson]

this was a surprisingly tuff 😤 line from Tony Burke on updating Australian criminal law around AI:

"It should never be the case that there's an argument that someone didn't know that the computer was loaded"