The Australian Prime Minister appeared to call for a ban on memes on social media Wednesday, as his government continues a full on assault on freedom of speech online.
During a press appearance, Anthony Albanese seemed to lump in memes making fun of him with “misinformation” he is claiming should be purged from the internet.
“Social media platforms have a responsibility to make sure that misinformation isn’t got out there,” Albanese stated.
He continued, “I noticed today, for example, on the way up here, they’ve removed various sites that were up containing fake images of myself superimposed on other people.”
Yeah that’s not illegal, it’s called freedom of expression, and… humour.
“That’s the sort of thing that is going on, on social media. Social media has a responsibility to do the right thing here,” he further asserted.
As we earlier highlighted, Albanese and his government are at war with Elon Musk, after the X owner refused demands to remove all copies of a video of Christian Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel being attacked by a Muslim extremist last week.
Australia’s so called ‘eSafety Commissioner’ Julie Inman-Grant, an unelected official, has ordered both X and Meta to remove footage of the stabbing under the Online Safety Act, passed in 2021, which empowers the eSafety department to demand the removal of so-called ‘class 1 material’.
Musk urged that “no president, prime minister or judge has authority over all of Earth! This platform adheres to the laws of countries in those countries, but it would be improper to extend one country’s rulings to other countries. If he [wants] to censor things in other countries, he should bring a legal action to bear in those countries.”
The Australian government has also proposed a so-called misinformation bill, released as a draft last year.
If passed into law, it would empower the Australian Communications and Media Authority to require online platforms to remove or restrict content considered “false, misleading or deceptive, and where the provision of that content on the service is reasonably likely to cause or contribute to serious harm,” according to the wording of the draft legislation.
Albanese’s wish to see memes completely removed from the internet betrays just how insanely out of touch with reality he is.
And, of course, it has just prompted the world to make millions more memes of him.
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She should expect quite a few pointed and accurate memes on THAT statement.
“Well, no president, prime minister or judge has authority over all of Earth!”
Yes, but One Judge does, and IT’s Judgement is Coming, with a Fire and Fury like none since Chicxulub!
‘Albo’ likely means well, he is less of a psycho swine than some of his class, but he just doesn’t get remotely what he is dealing with or up against. Nor can he from within his ideological and bureaucratic etc bubble, it’s just way too complex for even most so-called ‘intellectuals’ to even vaguely fully grasp. The tragically ironic thing is that those people have a uniquely powerful resource available, and instead of tapping into it, they waste it criminally insanely, and carry on towards destruction like babes in the woods. Catastrophe is coming, in multiple forms, from muliple directions, at annihilatingly accelerating velocities.
Of course those more concerned with marching in gay mardi-gras or suchlike will no doubt dismiss that as baseless fearmongering, it’s easy to think things are fine when you can only see such a short way ahead, unlike those who see (much) much further, and in multiple dimensions/on multiple levels simultaneously.
Fuck the Prime Minister and fuck Australia.
Much Like The Movie Or Music Business!-If You Can’t Take Criticism?-Guess What?-Your in the WRONG Business!!!-The World’s NOT Going To Worry About Hurting Your Feelings!!-Wimps Are a Dime a Dozen!!-Like The Little Girl Ruining Canada As a Pretend Dictator!!-BooHoooHHOOOO!!
all of them are already connected to unimatrix (neuralink). they are not humans anymore; just borg drones.. look how they act in sync all over the world. it is impossible to coordinate tens of thousands of people in 200 countries to act like they do. they all act like a machine
Oh, this takes me way back, to the glorious days of the early Internet and the famous Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace:
“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.”
The geeks, in those early days, already realised that non-geek politicians didn’t have the foggiest clue of what they were talking about when it came to cyberspace. Which is how we’ve come to today. Problem is, the Aussie prime minister may be entirely correct that memes are a menace to all humanity. And in that case, he’d probably be among the last to notice. And it would be by now probably too late to do a thing about them, because most of the damage is already done.
I mean, it would have been something else if the USA government had done a thing about memes during the Obama administration. That would have shown that the political class understood something about memes.
If there was some sort of international cyberspace organization under the UN where worldwide geeks could work out what a safe information space is like, preferably with some teeth (not like the toothless WHO, that had to watch in horror during the pandemic and apologise every time a country wanted to cover the ass of their mistaken government), that would be something to admire. But the way things are going, general Internet access could be one of those things that exist for a few beautiful years and then dies away, when the resources to maintain it stop being available.
Australia is lost.
The West is lost. Same shit going on in the US, UK, most of Europe.
Yes, make fun of anybody but NOT your Foreign Nazi “gods”!
#ArmageddonNow