In that section I’m drawing a comparison to where the laws have been drawn, and where the laws are proposed to be drawn. Trying to show that these laws are a heavy increase to what exists, and questioning whether that is the appropriate extent to go to.

Although, i want to say, I haven’t actually read the legislation on this, and i did hear something about a 2 year assessment period. So I don’t want to claim these laws are definitely going too far. But I do want to draw attention to the fact that unintended people and groups can get caught by laws that were designed for others.

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I think their point is from what they’ve seen so far, these laws are open and likely to be applied unevenly and arbitrarily against groups that ministers and governments of the day don’t like. Tony Burke has already said as much. Their response is much in line with the assessment of the laws that Matt Canavan had on the radio this morning.

Jail time and criminality for hate speech is a very large increase in consequences for sonething ‘deemed’ as hate speech. We currently have civil remedies for hate speech, so people can be and are held to account now.

So its calling into question whether tolerance and freedom of speech for all is going to be upheld and extended with these laws, or whether the laws introduce an inequity based on the Minister responsible’s whims and biases.

The propsed penalties for hate speech of a decade or so in prison is such life altering criminal penalties the Minister responsible has available that in future could arbitrarily use these laws to harass and destroy the lives of people they disagree with.

“One does not have to agree with Hizb ut-Tahrir, and can in fact be strongly critical of it, but banning Hizb ut-Tahrir under the pretext of hate is wrong and misleading,” they said.

“We cannot ignore the genocide in Gaza, which pro-Zionist advocates have spent the last two years defending.

“If hate speech is really a crime, then the words of pro-Zionist advocates, who have provided a cover for genocide, should first be prosecuted.

“Whether it is individuals or groups, we must reject any attempt to silence our voices through executive overreach.”

“When power to outlaw organisations rests on secret evidence and political discretion, it stops being about the law and becomes ideology and politics with the force of the state behind it,” Dr Rateb Jneid, president of AFIC, said. “This is not how a democratic country should define or punish hate.”

Sounds a fair assessment. Similar to the points the Liberals and Greens were making over the week about those proposed laws going too far in curtailing speech freedoms.

Lot of plates spinning with this mob. An interesting CCS project though, i wonder how viable it is.

Ooh, a Senator Collins appearance. Always feel a sense of achievement when a post of mine earns that kind of attention.

I dont know a way around that though without compromising a key function of the member for the house of reps. They’re elected by a simple majority but to represent and be responsive to that whole division. Its arguable if they ever really do represent the whole electorate once elected though.

Say if you were to introduce multi-member divisions to alleviate proportionality, that would undermine and potentially politicise every demand or request of individuals in that division.

For example,

In a two member division, a new liquor store proposal could be ignored by the conservative member who got a simple majority, but be taken up as a cause celebre for the junior member, provoking a political fight instead of where the needs and wants of a community are supposed to be forefront. In a single member electorate this can’t happen, because if the single member ignores some of their electorate they can’t shift the blame to anyone else, their inaction is an example of them not representing their electorate, thereby ‘hopefully’ hurting them come election time.

The cost of heatwaves, and then the fires is just heartbreaking.

Latte sipping guppys!

Fucking develop it ya muppets! Turn it into a park and donate it to the council, build apartments or town houses there. Put something there! Its a bloody eyesore!

I’m pretty sure they need to be fined for everyday they refuse to do something with that land. I’m not in favour of that remedy usually, but in this case they are pulling the piss.

With outright majorities in the upper house as common as hens teeth, its pretty inarguable that we have something more complex than a two party system.

Hooli dooli, Canada’s PM actively considering the architecture of cross border payment systems! Thats a clear indication that world leaders are moving to reduce the world’s dependence on the USD as the reserve currency. Its also an indication that the VISA/Mastercard near monopoly are in the crosshairs of non-US countrys.

If the Americans surrender one of their biggest strengths, financial preference and dominance, they’re going to find life a lot, lot harder. Paying for extravagances, like aircraft carriers, may become far harder.

One element of Lemmy that is being underutilised by many people is the ‘together but separate’ nature of this social media.

This is probably due to a lot of the user interfaces, be it desktop or mobile, not prioritising showing a distinction between servers.

The app ‘sync’ is one example that does prioritise this, (although its not been updated for ages so is slowly breaking).

This app allows you to visit each server individually, not just single communities. This means you can spend your time on some of the country specific, or special interest servers where the very ‘reddity’ US politics posting is minimal, if present at all.

So my advice, go explore some specific servers. I don’t know what DB0’s server is like. Just had a quick look, seems like a tonne of bots posting on the local, so maybe not the best example of what I mean.

Try my home instance (aussie.zone) theres a group of regular posters, and while we have an ‘overseas news’ community, it isnt the most popular community on the server, and US stuff is far from the top three of subjects.

Other examples of what I mean are,

Lemmy.NZ Feddit.UK Programming.dev Slrpnk.net

We have the ability to have whole servers dedicated to niche topics, and their different facets, while still being connected to the whole, its quite fantastic.

So go explore different servers, maybe even move to a server that particularly interests you, that way when you can’t do the content on ‘all’ or ‘subscribed’ communities, theres the ‘local’ or ‘favourite’ servers there as well.

I feel like Labor won the political week with this. Instead of being accused of going too soft and slowly, everyone is saying slow down and don’t go that far!

Yes, they’re being criticised, it seems they’re not going to be able to make any decision without that, but they’ve flipped the direction of policy indicated by that criticism. Can’t help thinking this was the plan in order to neuter the Coalition and Murdoch propagandists.

Barbaric humans. Give food, shelter, medecine, and fuck off your jack boots from children’s necks.

This is getting very complicated. Maybe they should stop trying to silence each other and start listening to each other. Both, neither, or one of these people might have trash views and ways of expressing those views, but if the board has already signed off on the invitation to the festival, then they need to back that decision. Only something quite heinous coming to light should demand a reconsideration.

Also if all these super smart people on these high flying boards can’t find a way to strip away the power imbalances brought by personal connections at a writer’s festival and provide a fair space for expression, then I’m worried for the meritocracy of the way board positions are given…

Looks like the same shoot from a different angle. Not the same guy.

Not just the hair, but the stripes, and the hat are the same as well. I suppose these were all very common though.

That looks like the back of one of the actors from Dads Army. I suppose it would have been a fairly standard haircut.

Thats really sad you say that considering your home instance is slrpnk.net, which is based off a movement that reaches for a genuinely positive outlook.