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[Caldron Pool @CaldronPool]

Australians waiting to find out what rights the government is going to take away today after another unhinged leftist committed an act of violence in the streets:

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The degree to which people in the West fall prey to suicidal empathy continues to astonish me.

Read @GadSaad’s book about it!

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Remigration is the moderate response

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

I would trade every single communist in the entire world for this one beautiful French building you just burned down.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen.

I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.

And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.

[Jade Warwick @TheJadeWarwick]

GB gov be like “Do not fly the British flag but please die for the country”.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Why would young white British lads fight for a state that so obviously despises them?

[Senator Sarah Henderson @SenSHenderson]

Anika Wells is desperate to hide what's in her insidious censorship bill.

Join the fight to kill the bill. Sign our petition: https://t.co/YMPBCiWf29

[R3tards Down Under @r3tarddownunder]

This American is more “Australia First” than anyone in Australia who continues to vote for retarded politicians who want mass censorship.

Patriot @shellenberger 🫡🇦🇺

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Truckers protest and Trudeau calls them all Nazis and freezes their bank accounts. In Australia the @AlboMP government demonized millions of upstanding citizens as Nazis and racists after a murderous attack.

It’s the same totalitarian playbook everywhere across the West from EU, UK, Canada to US to Aus/NZ. Same people. Same pathological need for control from the PMC.

These are people who believe they have exorcised all evil from within and project it all onto millions of good people. It’s a sickness of people who have never considered the other side to their dogma their entire lives. Everyone who disagrees with them is evil and must be silenced in one way or another.

When asked politely about why they want to deprive their fellow citizens of their most sacred right, the one that allows for the protection of all other rights, they literally flee out the back door of their cathedral.

These people are the dangerous ones. They want to cause harm to their critics and openly threaten the public’s safety.

[Solzhenixon @sardonic_greek]

If you don’t like this your gay

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

Ever SINCE AUSTRALIANS gave up their RIGHT TO OWN GUNS, the AUSSIE GOVERNMENT has STOLEN THEIR FREE SPEECH…

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Wow, wow, wow. I just left the National Press Club where Minister of Communications @AnikaWells spoke. She repeatedly and brazenly lied about the fake accounts, claiming they were only for enforcement, even though the legislation says in black and white that the eSafety Commissioner can use them in unlimited ways for "educational" and "promotional" purposes.

One big moment came when a Politico reporter got up and said something about how mean people like @PaulineHansonOz were to eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant. Seriously. A supposed reporter was white-knighting for a government official during the official Q&A. The same reporter had come up to me before Wells' speech and asked if I had criticized Inman-Grant. Who needs government censors when you have Politico?

After he asked his question, Wells showed the most emotion, describing online criticism of Inman-Grant as "abuse." She also talked about her own staff's supposed suffering. I kid you not. The mask dropped, and you could see what really upset her: people — including a sitting Senator — criticizing government officials.

After gaslighting the audience about fake accounts, Wells repeatedly insisted the government wasn't trying to censor content. She said this after filling her speech with examples of content she claimed harmed people. You couldn't make it up.

This legislation is the culmination of decades of progressives equating words with physical violence. Wells cynically compared her legislation to prevent psychological "harm" to various laws that protect people from physical harm, like seat belt laws.

BTW, Wells never said what content it was that she thought caused eating disorders. Pictures of skinny women? Dietary advice? Who knows. Nobody asked.

Another important moment came when Wells explicitly said Australia would be pursuing censorship alongside other nations, including the UK, France, and Spain—all countries where governments risk losing power to populists.

I spoke with Julie Inman-Grant before the speech began and asked about the fake accounts. She insisted they were there just for enforcement, and when I asked why the law allowed them to be used for government propaganda, she said she might write an "enforcement memo," which, of course, would have no impact on the legislation.

After her speech, I went up to Wells and asked if she was seriously saying the legislation didn't allow the government to use fake accounts for government propaganda. She refused to answer. A man who said he was from the National Press Club stepped in front of me and said I could interview her afterward. But that wasn't possible because they rushed her out the back to avoid any difficult questions.

So there you have it. The pettiest people in Australia are seeking to silence citizens and their political opponents in the name of protecting children. These deeply intolerant and cynical people want to control what you can see and say online. And they're doing it with most of the media's support. Australia has reached a new low in its rapid descent into dogmatism, intolerance, and censorship.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Well, that was wild. I'm at the Australian Parliament and just left a meeting with two staffers for the governing party. They told us that the government needed more power to censor things like the upcoming US execution of Nidal Hasan.

When I asked why they needed to censor that video, one said it was to prevent copycat killings. Copycat killings by governments? I asked. Er, no, they said. Copycat killings like of a backpacker, several decades ago.

So, under that logic, I pointed out, the government should censor things like last year's Bondi massacre, where two Muslims killed 15 people, no? Well, that was news, they said. Didn't they realize their bill would allow the government to censor news? They didn't seem to know, or care.

They also admitted that they did not know that the bill would allow the government to create and operate an unlimited number of fake social media accounts to attack its political enemies and spread disinformation. Having presented them with information they had never heard about a bill they had clearly not read, they emphasized to us, strenuously, that they were moving forward with the bill.

So there you have it. The government wants the power to arbitrarily censor scenes of violent crime, or violence, for any reason. And it wants the power to use an unlimited number of fake accounts to wage offensive disinformational warfare against the Australian people.

Given that the Bondi massacre last year increased public opposition to mass migration, and support for the populist One Nation Party, it seems obvious that the government wants to censor such events in order to protect its political power.

It's quite telling how obediently governing party members insist such a law is needed without even knowing what's in it.

[Tony Abbott @HonTonyAbbott]

Today Anika Wells introduced the Digital Duty of Care bill to Parliament. @shellenberger explains why we should be very concerned.

[Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 @PaulineHansonOz]

Labor’s shocking censorship bill cannot be fixed. It must be abandoned completely.

Labor still wants the power to shut down what you are allowed to say, and to run swarms of AI-powered government bots to feed you propaganda and record what you do online.

You just cannot trust this lying government.

There is no amendment that can fix their Digital Duty of Care bill. It never should have seen the light of day. Bin the whole thing and never bring it back.

[Anthony Khallouf @ausvstheagenda]

Communications Minister Anika Wells has an extraordinary Freudian slip while trying to sell the ‘Digital Duty of Care’ bill to the public:

“We are controlling freedom of speech.”

[Birds Colour ���️ @birdscolour56]

Such a beautiful bird. 🦜🥹