Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’
Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’
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Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’
It's already happened on reddit, various Gaza subreddits are age gated. Anything NSFW is age gated, not just porn but things from Alcoholic Anonymous to chairs Not Fully Submerged in Water on r/chairsunderwater. XBox Live is age gated, because apparently this wasn't about preventing kids from seeing porn like they originally said but it's now about preventing children from talking to adults.
However I don't think it's to do with Palestine Action specifically. That's a separate thing, where an organisation that posed a not-insignificant military threat was dealt with in a clunky way using terrorism laws (which cover threats to civilians). I don't consider those in charge to be clever enough to set all that up in that way; rather, they'd already planned to use the Online Safety Act in this way and would have blocked anything they deemed controversial regardless.
That's why alternative decentralised social media is so important. It means that we can continue to discuss things that governments do not want us to discuss (today Gaza tomorrow other corporate malfaisance) without regards de the "laws" they come up with to silence free speech.
Depressing to see mass censorship yet again being dressed up as "protecting kids". Regarding Palestine Action those in charge were heavily lobbied by organizations such as "We Believe in Israel" and other Zionist groups to use terror legislation on non violent protestors that are an inconvenience to the war machine.