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I'm in Australia, so we have a pretty open approach to online speech unless you're being really, really awful. Like really awful.

OR. You want to say something about US oil and gas companies, or Israel. Those two things will get you scrutinised.

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Or if you have to say anything about government's policies. Like covid lockdowns, for example.

State by state, but that was massively blown out of proportion by the media. You were never at risk for saying boo about the lockdowns on social media.

But obviously if you tried to organise protests during lockdowns, that's a different kettle of fish.

But if you start making some big posts about Woodside etc, you can have AFP knocking at your door.

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