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I really don't get it. Everytime I read about Australian technology it's an article that I'd still find believable after replacing "Australia" with "North Korea".

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You likely don't know very much about North Korea then.

Not necessarily. It'd be much harder to replace "North Korea" with "Australia" when you look at news that's actually from North Korea.

Here's the issue with North Korea - they don't use technology :D.

Maybe replacing Australia with their new paymasters in China makes more sense?

> ..they (NK) don't use technology :D.

idk, there's RedStar OS, but no Kangaroo OS (tbf few countries have their own distro)

Australia will be the first Western country to block Tor, but I can't predict when.

If Australia becomes the first Western country to block it… it would be quite an achievement haha

The capital W is there for a reason.

well thats perfectly logical IF you want to prevent under-16s from using social media.

First with a social credit score most likely.

The USA beat them to that, but they don't use the word "social"

Wait until you read about the efforts by the current left-wing government to block social media for children. Which is basically an attempt to deanonymise the internet.

It's actually an attempt to block social media for children. There's no ulterior motives. It will have the consequence of deanonymisation but it's not an attempt to achieve that.

> . It will have the consequence of deanonymisation but it's not an attempt to achieve that.

How about regulating all social media to be healthy for all ages to use? The social media corporations should lose freedom, not the citizens. (IMO)

I don't think Australia has the power to do that. The world is full of unhealthy things that we prohibit from children. It's a popular idea, with most people in favour of a ban for kids.

Care to expand on the good faith premise and methodology proposed?

That only matters to people who use social media. It's not like you need an id card to use the Internet

Labor is a lot of things. Left-wing sadly isn't one of them anymore

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