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@ vegan cooker greenie bleeding heart intellectual. not a fan of boxticking sterotypes.

[LM1987 @LM19878]

We are being censored here. I can't like or reply. X has gone to shit. I'm done.

[LM1987 @LM19878]

@ZooNealand I have Maori fatigue. Enough.

[Pete North @FUDdaily]

Imagine the levels of propaganda it took to make you more comfortable with random beheadings and gang rapes than being called racist.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Please remember that you must not express your feelings about the Belfast atrocity until the political establishment has told you exactly how you are supposed to feel. That's how it works now.

[LM1987 @LM19878]

@Coinvo Africa is poor because of corruption and communism.

[Joshua Riley 🇳🇿 @VoteSovereign]

https://t.co/XBCzOUpoQ4

[LM1987 @LM19878]

@SketchesbyBoze 'Dance, little slave. Dance!'

[LM1987 @LM19878]

@mafifi0 If it is someone I know at work etc. then no, but strangers yes. It is a safeguarding issue.

[🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ @NZFreeSpeech]

David Harvey, a retired District Court judge, has written in the Herald on the plan to bar under-16s from social media. His objection isn't to the goal. It's to who's being handed the machinery.

A scheme that stops children using a platform first has to confirm every other user isn't one. So a children's measure becomes verification of every adult, and it keeps widening from there. Nearly all of it runs through one agency.

The Department of Internal Affairs would build the verification system, accredit the providers it depends on, and run the unit that classifies content and monitors violent extremism. It already holds the country's passports and biometric data. One agency, one minister, marking its own homework.

As Harvey points out, the EU deliberately split these functions apart. We're stacking them.

His conclusion is blunt: keep the DIA well away from age verification. We agree - and we'd go further. Making every adult prove who they are to use communications platforms is the wrong road, however carefully it's built.

🔗 Read it for yourself: https://t.co/2wyyUZ12cF

[The Cyberpunk Dingo @cyberpunkdingo]

Officeworks has just offshored hundreds of jobs to India and the Philippines, and every Australian should know exactly how this went down.

Dozens of workers at the company's Western Sydney customer service centre have been made redundant. Their roles are now being handled by a call centre in Manila. Hundreds more office and technology roles in Sydney and Melbourne are being moved to Bengaluru, India, across three phases over the coming months. Employees of Officeworks-owned brand Geeks2U have reported that their roles were being advertised in Manila before staff consultation was even complete. One worker with twenty years of tenure was let go in an online meeting.

Officeworks reported revenue of $3.565 billion, up 3.8%, with earnings climbing 1.9% to $212 million in its last full year results. It is one of Australia's most recognisable retail brands, owned by one of Australia's largest conglomerates, making a deliberate choice to replace Australian workers with cheaper offshore labour while the business is growing.

Wesfarmers announced AI partnerships with Microsoft and Google earlier this year, framing the offshore expansion as a capability enhancement alongside cost optimisation. That framing deserves to be called out for what it is. The actual model is straightforward: invest in AI infrastructure at the group level, offshore the human roles being restructured underneath it, and package the whole thing as innovation.

And Officeworks is not doing anything novel here. NAB cut hundreds of Australian roles while moving operations to India and Vietnam. Telstra is axing up to 650 jobs as part of its own India expansion. The same pattern is running through Australian banking, telecoms, and now retail. It's one of the biggest issues facing the working class in the private sector, and yet it gets very little attention.

When pressed on the decision, a federal government spokesperson said Canberra wanted businesses to prioritise Australian jobs, and that's about as much as they are planning to do about this. Something has to change immediately, or we will end up with a bunch of mega corporations who profit off the Australian public, while terminating thousands, if not tens of thousands of jobs. And every single one of those jobs likely supports a family.

[LM1987 @LM19878]

@aniobrien She's our version of the meme

https://t.co/2E9MYrVLQp

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

This is going to run and run

[🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ @NZFreeSpeech]

No law. No legal advice. No risk assessment.

Yet $30.7 million has already been allocated.

Documents obtained by the Free Speech Union via the Official Information Act reveal planning was underway to establish and operationalise an under-16 social media regulatory regime before Parliament had debated or passed the legislation required to create it.

Process matters. In a democracy, laws should be passed before governments begin building the systems to enforce them.

[LM1987 @LM19878]

@TheCriticalDri2 I'm female. I detest people who say I don't deserve to vote but sometimes defending my position is 😬

[LM1987 @LM19878]

@BrianRoemmele How convenient would it be for Anthropic to have all their competitors just magically disappear like that. 'Whoosh' all gone.

[LM1987 @LM19878]

@drhingram The government is made up of civil servants who think the common man is too thick to think for themselves and must therefore be 'influenced' nudge, nudge etc.

[LM1987 @LM19878]

@1nzmw @CitizenBomber He lost the plot after covid. Used to be more balanced

[la scapigliata @lascapigliata8]

One way identity politics was entrenched in our society was by allowing young people with minimal experience to think they can "school" older colleagues in anything. The only superior knowledge youngsters in school or at the outset of their careers have, compared to their senior colleagues, is of ideologies they were indoctrinated into more easily due to their lack of knowledge and experience.

I believe there was a temporary blindness and "intellectual fetishisation" of youth as the society moved into the digital age. Do you remember the grown ups being at a loss with computers and the internet, and begging their schoolkids to help them with basic tasks pertaining to that? This grew into inappropriate belief that the young generation at the time was somehow "superior" in their understanding of the world, when they were no such thing. They were just kids with still highly plastic brains, growing up in the age of computers, who "got it" far more easily than adults because they weren't yet cognitively entrenched in a different communication modality. This was a quirk of neurology, not a generation of "indigo children who would save us all".

We can see the other side of that coin now, with the children of that generation unable to read books and physical texts, unable to hand-write and generally having severe issues with focusing on long form content. Because now they are cognitively entrenched in a diffeerent communication modality.

Then, in the 2000s and first 1/2 of 2010s, adults temporarily dropped the ball in order to have fun on the internet. In this we often beclowned ourselves, displaying our neuroses, inadequacies and pathologies for all the world to see, while the kids were growing up without proper respect for their elders, because how could they respect us when they could see all our internal states, fears, failings? Never before did humanity face such a challenge. So the youngsters got the idea they needed to save the world - from us - not realising that they will one day grow up to be just as flawed as adults of their time, because that's just how humans are.

Now we are in utter grip of batshit ideologies, with all professional standards and safeguards eroded, with young people still feeling entitled to "school" those far wiser and experienced than themselves, feeling vindicated in their behaviour, and this *parentified and adultified* generation of children are slowly taking over leadership positions everywhere, because now they are adults. And what they lack in terms of self-reflection, wisdom and humility, they have compensated for with entitlement and belief that their ideologies are the only thing that can save the world, which at this point they are stupefying and setting on fire themsleves

[LM1987 @LM19878]

@2ETEKA All working together to achieve someone else's plan

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

“Twenty-five years ago, the political class was more willing to engage in open debate.”

Today, there is an attempt to cast legitimate criticism of prevailing orthodoxies — whether on diversity, Islam, immigration, or climate change — as misinformation, disinformation, or hate speech.

At the heart of the free speech crisis is an unwillingness on the part of the promoters of these policies to defend them in public.

Instead of engaging in good-faith debate, they portray critics as beyond the pale.

In this relatively recent phenomenon, people are increasingly realising that if they challenge a certain cluster of prevailing orthodoxies, they are likely to be cancelled.

We must push back against this.

Watch the General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young, speaking at our event in Belfast 👇