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The "online safety" of kids is just an excuse, I suspect.

Australia really wants to be able to identify and track the ID of all their citizens online. No more Internet anonymity for them.

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Recently the Australian government's been talking about creating a national "internet hate" database to record criticism of Israel and the IDF, it's likely in service of that, as anonymity makes it harder to silence dissent.

Its not going to stop at that either. Once they have a database it will be expanded to include more and more.

> "criticism of Israel"

Like the death chant marches through Australian city streets, burning synagogues, attacking Israeli restaurants, vandalising, threatening, and shoving socialist-activated Palestinian propaganda marches in our faces every second? That criticism?

Jokingly, it’s not surprising given many of their short-term ancestors were prison guards or criminals.

Looks like the ruling gov still sees their citizens as such

“England transported an estimated 50,000 to 120,000 convicts and political prisoners, as well as prisoners of war from Scotland and Ireland, to its overseas colonies in the Americas from the 1610s until early in the American Revolution in 1776, when transportation to America was temporarily suspended…”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation?wprov=sft...

Reasonable assumption but really our politicians just are that dumb.

Dumb people don't rise to seats of power.

It's more like playing dumb, willfully ignoring the issues to serve ulterior motives.

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