* . *
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Earth-News
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    AMC brings first new Dolby Experience to Gwinnett since 2017 – Wyoming News Now

    AMC Launches First New Dolby Experience in Gwinnett Since 2017

    Hetzel Design: blending architecture and entertainment – Blooloop

    Hetzel Design: Where Architecture and Entertainment Unite in Perfect Harmony

    Country music legend rushed to hospital year after heart surgery. Here’s what we know – PennLive.com

    Country Music Legend Rushed to Hospital One Year After Heart Surgery – What’s Happening Now?

    Strictly Come Dancing results: Chris Robshaw is eliminated while drag queen La Voix escapes dance-off – Yahoo

    Strictly Come Dancing results: Chris Robshaw is eliminated while drag queen La Voix escapes dance-off – Yahoo

    Placer County town of Loomis considers entertainment zone for downtown – CBS News

    Loomis Unveils Thrilling New Entertainment Zone to Revitalize Downtown

    CT Culture Corner: Robert Redford films to watch – CT Insider

    CT Culture Corner: Robert Redford films to watch – CT Insider

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Office Technology: Dealers’ Managed IT Revenue up Nearly 30% – The Cannata Report –

    Office Technology: Dealers’ Managed IT Revenue up Nearly 30% – The Cannata Report –

    3 E Network Technology Group Limited Closes $1.5 Million Convertible Promissory Note Offering – Quiver Quantitative

    3 E Network Technology Group Limited Closes $1.5 Million Convertible Promissory Note Offering – Quiver Quantitative

    3 Technology Stocks to Buy Now – Yahoo Finance

    3 Must-Buy Tech Stocks You Can’t Afford to Miss Right Now

    ‘New frontier’: Austin leaders start discussions on air taxi technology – KXAN Austin

    Austin Leaders Ignite Exciting Conversations on the Future of Air Taxi Technology

    How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway – blog.google

    How a Gemma Model Revealed a Breakthrough Pathway for Cancer Treatment

    Italian Technology in Manufacturing: Supporting North American Industries and Keeping Production Local – Thomasnet

    How Italian Technology is Revolutionizing North American Manufacturing and Boosting Local Production

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    AMC brings first new Dolby Experience to Gwinnett since 2017 – Wyoming News Now

    AMC Launches First New Dolby Experience in Gwinnett Since 2017

    Hetzel Design: blending architecture and entertainment – Blooloop

    Hetzel Design: Where Architecture and Entertainment Unite in Perfect Harmony

    Country music legend rushed to hospital year after heart surgery. Here’s what we know – PennLive.com

    Country Music Legend Rushed to Hospital One Year After Heart Surgery – What’s Happening Now?

    Strictly Come Dancing results: Chris Robshaw is eliminated while drag queen La Voix escapes dance-off – Yahoo

    Strictly Come Dancing results: Chris Robshaw is eliminated while drag queen La Voix escapes dance-off – Yahoo

    Placer County town of Loomis considers entertainment zone for downtown – CBS News

    Loomis Unveils Thrilling New Entertainment Zone to Revitalize Downtown

    CT Culture Corner: Robert Redford films to watch – CT Insider

    CT Culture Corner: Robert Redford films to watch – CT Insider

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Office Technology: Dealers’ Managed IT Revenue up Nearly 30% – The Cannata Report –

    Office Technology: Dealers’ Managed IT Revenue up Nearly 30% – The Cannata Report –

    3 E Network Technology Group Limited Closes $1.5 Million Convertible Promissory Note Offering – Quiver Quantitative

    3 E Network Technology Group Limited Closes $1.5 Million Convertible Promissory Note Offering – Quiver Quantitative

    3 Technology Stocks to Buy Now – Yahoo Finance

    3 Must-Buy Tech Stocks You Can’t Afford to Miss Right Now

    ‘New frontier’: Austin leaders start discussions on air taxi technology – KXAN Austin

    Austin Leaders Ignite Exciting Conversations on the Future of Air Taxi Technology

    How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway – blog.google

    How a Gemma Model Revealed a Breakthrough Pathway for Cancer Treatment

    Italian Technology in Manufacturing: Supporting North American Industries and Keeping Production Local – Thomasnet

    How Italian Technology is Revolutionizing North American Manufacturing and Boosting Local Production

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
Earth-News
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Here we go again: ‘Terror’ hysteria brings out the worst in the political-media class

April 24, 2024
in News
Here we go again: ‘Terror’ hysteria brings out the worst in the political-media class
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

It only took one failed knife attack on a cleric and the decision of one toxic clown of a tech billionaire: Australia is back into a full-court press on civil liberties and freedom of speech.

Australia’s internet censorship body, with the encouragement of politicians on both sides, is pursuing X (formerly Twitter) for rightly refusing to remove footage of the Wakeley attack, with “e-Safety commissioner” Julie Inman Grant demanding a global ban on the content.

X’s competitors in Australia’s corporate media, particularly at the Nine papers, are cheering them on. Unsurprisingly, Nine journalists are demanding “Musk be put in his place“. Even the Financial Review devoted multiple stories to the issue today and editorialised that the removal of the Wakeley footage was “a genuine public safety” issue and akin to “shouting fire in a crowded cinema” (quoting Wendell Holmes is like the Godwin’s Law of the free speech debate).

Meanwhile, the Coalition is demanding that Inman Grant’s “papers please” requirement for age verification online be implemented immediately. In that demand, let’s be clear about what the opposition really wants: it would apply to not just social media companies but any adult content. That would mean the 84% of men and 54% of women in Australia who use pornography would be compelled to hand ID documents like credit card details or birth certificates to social media companies, services like YouTube, and pornography websites.

Happy with Pornhub having your passport because Peter Dutton thinks it’s a good idea? Yeah, “age verification” suddenly doesn’t sound so clever once you point out what it involves, eh?

Let’s not forget the government is also crafting legislation to criminalise “doxxing”, or, to be accurate, publicly revealing the names of people who want to destroy your career because you object to mass slaughter and ethnic cleansing.

And the nation’s security bureaucrats have exploited recent events to once again demand a prohibition on encryption, with a dropped speech from the heads of ASIO and the Australian Federal Police flagging a push for security agencies to be given back doors into encrypted systems so they can check that users “do not enable crime and the vilification of minorities such as Muslims, Jews and the LGBTQIA+ community”.

This, too, will be cheered on by many in the media. One senior journalist at Nine has already lashed out at the use of VPNs, saying they help “drug-runners dodge police” and blur “the idea of national borders”. That would suggest anyone hoping to contact David Crowe anonymously should probably think again, since a VPN and encrypted communications platforms like Signal are basic tools for any journalist who wants to do all they can to protect sources.

That’s one of the many problems that attacks on end-to-end encryption entail. Contrary to the cliché about not having anything to hide, plenty of us have something to hide and need our communications secured from snooping by security bureaucrats — politicians, lawyers, journalists, medical professionals and anyone who wants to blow the whistle on wrongdoing. Australia has a deeply entrenched culture of trying to destroy anyone who reveals wrongdoing. Just ask Brittany Higgins.

And the idea that the AFP, which can be sent after whistleblowers by politicians and public service chiefs, can be trusted to not abuse powers to access encrypted communications is laughable.

The willingness of many in the media and politics in Australia to support attacks on free speech, privacy and civil liberties demonstrates a persistent theme: the commitment to protecting free speech and basic rights is only skin deep — and often not even that. When even the alleged “watchdog press”, and the party that is supposed to be suspicious of big government and state intrusion, call for yet more powers to monitor and control what Australians see and can say, it reflects a shallow attachment to the basics of a free society.

Defending those basics is often left to the cranks and the far right — look at the line-up defending Musk here: the risible Ralph Babet, senator for high-vis vests Matt Canavan, the fossil fuel-funded bozos of the IPA. But though it shouldn’t have to be said, just because dickheads believe something, doesn’t make it wrong.

This happens every time there’s a new “terror” attack in Australia. It happened after 9/11 and the Bali bombings, with the Howard government introducing some of the most draconian assaults on civil liberties in Australian history. It happened after the rise of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, laughably portrayed as an “existential threat” to Australia by then attorney-general George Brandis, which prompted yet more assaults on freedom, like data retention.

Now, a failed knifing caught on camera is the pretext for another assault. Talk about history repeating as farce.

>>> Read full article>>>
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source : Crikey – https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/04/24/wakeley-stabbing-video-elon-musk-freedom-of-speech/

Tags: hysterianewsTerror
Previous Post

PNG ‘blessed’ with back-to-back high-level visits from China and Australia

Next Post

Many Australians face losing their homes right now. Here’s how the government should help

Jacobson earns program’s first medal at U23 World Championships – nmuwildcats.com

Jacobson Breaks New Ground with Program’s First Medal at U23 World Championships

October 22, 2025
AHLA: Hotels generate $7B for Denver economy – Hotel Management

Hotels Drive Denver’s Economy to Soar by $7 Billion

October 22, 2025
AMC brings first new Dolby Experience to Gwinnett since 2017 – Wyoming News Now

AMC Launches First New Dolby Experience in Gwinnett Since 2017

October 22, 2025
UCare, other carriers dropping Medicare Advantage Plans, leaving 200K Minnesota seniors without health insurance – CBS News

UCare, other carriers dropping Medicare Advantage Plans, leaving 200K Minnesota seniors without health insurance – CBS News

October 22, 2025
With Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire, Some Pro-Palestinian Protesters Look Back at Their Movement, Ruefully – The New York Times

With Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire, Some Pro-Palestinian Protesters Look Back at Their Movement, Ruefully – The New York Times

October 21, 2025
Fusobacterium nucleatum : ecology, pathogenesis and clinical implications – Nature

Unveiling Fusobacterium nucleatum: Exploring Its Ecology, Disease Connections, and Health Impact

October 21, 2025
Escherichia coli with a 57-codon genetic code – Science | AAAS

Escherichia coli Engineered with a Revolutionary 57-Codon Genetic Code

October 21, 2025
LOCALIZE IT: Over 420 anti-science bills target public health protections in statehouses across US – newspressnow.com

More Than 420 Anti-Science Bills Jeopardize Public Health Across the Nation

October 21, 2025
Halloween not your thing? Here’s when Christmas at the Newport mansions will start. – The Providence Journal

Not a Halloween Fan? Find Out When Christmas Magic Begins at the Newport Mansions!

October 21, 2025
Office Technology: Dealers’ Managed IT Revenue up Nearly 30% – The Cannata Report –

Office Technology: Dealers’ Managed IT Revenue up Nearly 30% – The Cannata Report –

October 21, 2025

Categories

Archives

October 2025
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
« Sep    
Earth-News.info

The Earth News is an independent English-language daily published Website from all around the World News

Browse by Category

  • Business (20,132)
  • Ecology (879)
  • Economy (901)
  • Entertainment (21,772)
  • General (17,729)
  • Health (9,942)
  • Lifestyle (913)
  • News (22,149)
  • People (901)
  • Politics (911)
  • Science (16,111)
  • Sports (21,400)
  • Technology (15,880)
  • World (884)

Recent News

Jacobson earns program’s first medal at U23 World Championships – nmuwildcats.com

Jacobson Breaks New Ground with Program’s First Medal at U23 World Championships

October 22, 2025
AHLA: Hotels generate $7B for Denver economy – Hotel Management

Hotels Drive Denver’s Economy to Soar by $7 Billion

October 22, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

Go to mobile version