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Claim comes despite draft of bill explaining media regulator will not be empowered to request specific content be removed from digital platforms

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[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 82 points 1 year ago

Classic self report.

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

"Oh no what would we do without more Christian spam?"

Please keep your religions to yourself, people.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 42 points 1 year ago
[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 year ago

But if we can't lie how will we express our opinions? Won't someone think of the misinformation peddlers?

[–] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago

I love when people do this

"You cant make it harder to deal with misinformation! it'll destroy us!"

if you are destroyed by truth, and by fact checking.. You deserve to be destroyed.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

"But if you force us to tell the truth it ruins our whole business model!"

[–] SolNine@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

Well, I mean if you media is literally fictional propaganda, then maybe it should be cancelled?

[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“The ‘mis-information bill’ is particularly dangerous for Christians who want to express an alternate view to the prevailing woke culture on gender and sexuality and for those who want to speak out against abortion,” she said.

This seems to be the main issue they have with it.

[–] pizza-bagel@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

Yeah because the only ammo they have for their side is made up bullshit

[–] aranym@lemmy.name 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The bill still leaves enforcement of specific content up to the platforms.. so it seems they're implying their own posts on these topics would be generally considered misinformation? I respect the honesty lol

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Cool so they want to spread misinformation based on religion. I see this as very similar to if they’d said they wouldn’t be allowed to speak out against evolution

[–] AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago

But would there also be any negative effects?

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


One Nation will also campaign against the bill at a free speech conference in Brisbane later in August, with conservative broadcaster Alan Jones a keynote speaker.

In campaign materials Michelle Pearse, the chief executive of the Australian Christian Lobby, claims the bill is a “threat to our religious freedom”.

“The ‘mis-information bill’ is particularly dangerous for Christians who want to express an alternate view to the prevailing woke culture on gender and sexuality and for those who want to speak out against abortion,” she said.

Wendy Francis, ACL’s national director, told Guardian Australia the bill “fails to include any mechanisms to protect valid expression of opinion and belief or to ensure that there are clear and defined limits on suppression of speech”.

Francis cited challenging the “affirmation only” approach to gender transitioning, comments questioning health advice from the chief medical officer and “public discussion on the inappropriateness of conversion therapy legislation, where it extends unjustifiably to prayer” as examples of speech that could be in the firing line.

Christensen’s CitizenGo campaign to “save free speech” came to Canberra on Friday, with two mobile truck billboards outside Old Parliament House warning that the “government is watching you”, even though the changes preserve industry self-regulation.


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[–] MortyMcFry@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago

As soon as they use the word woke, I’m out.

[–] resurrexia@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Shot themselves in the foot eh

[–] tallwookie@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why wont someone think of the religiously indoctrinated children?!!

[–] sloonark@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

The Australian Christian Lobby is a cancer.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

First giant spiders, now Christuans!? Fuck Australia is scary.

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