An Australian government staffer was asked in Parliament House this week why the Digital Duty of Care bill is needed. The answer was a video. Nidal Hasan is due to be executed by firing squad on December 3, and the government wants the power to stop Australians seeing it.
The staffer was then asked whether the bill would also have allowed censorship of footage of last year’s Bondi massacre. The reply was that Bondi was different because Bondi was news.
Asked whether they realised the bill would let the government censor news, the staffers appeared not to know or care. They said they were moving forward with it anyway...
https://reclaimthenet.org/australia-censorship-bill-execution-video
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