No, no, no. This is HN. We are, like, possible COVID restrictions are good thing! Violate quarantine?! Beat them all up! It is for the children! And grandma! Google tracking you to place an ad in front of you for a better set of headphones than the ones you are currently shopping for that you can simply not buy? Now that's a violation of human rights!
Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine
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#12Wow. It’s like the twilight zone over there. I’m quite concerned at the lengths governments are going to take away our rights. All in the name of “the good of others”.
Couldn't agree more - the fact that my request to go on a stabbing rampage was declined due to "the good of others" is a travesty against human rights and the freedoms that come with them.
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#13Citizens need to enforce and assert their rights there before it's too late.
Did you never learn that the definition of a government includes having a monopoly on violence? Australia would essentially become a failed state with your suggestion, and I don't exactly think the government is just going to let that happen.
Australia is already on its way to being a failed state by now. Police and military patrol the streets to enforce rules, “papers please” tyranny is required to live, and soon they’ll demand complete surveillance and control in your own house.
Wake up before it is too late.
https://theconversation.com/vaccine-passports-are-coming-to-...
“NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian yesterday announced freedoms for fully vaccinated people once 70% of the state’s eligible population are double dosed. These include being able to go to hospitality venues, hairdressers and gyms, and have five people to your home.”
They are even now trying to limit how many people you can have over in your own home. It is a failed state. Wake up before you are enslaved.
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#14This might be an unpopular opinion! But there are some really bad people out there. The situation is getting out of hand here in Melbourne and there are people like this family who're Covid positive and still out and about in the community. We should blame selfish people like these for such measures from the government.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/melbourne/article-9964173/M...
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#15"... following a selective tender process in November" Remarkably slow process given that we are dealing with a pandemic. Worth pointing out that "Australian gov to use" should read "South Australian gov to use" (South Australia being a state of Australia). EDIT: As this thread is attracting attention from people who have views different from my own I'd just like to make it clear that I'm in favour of controlling the…
We're dealing with an endemic disease that is going on its third year. At some point, people and governments need to recognize that fact: it's not controllable and it will spread eventually no matter how dystopian you get.
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#16Citizens need to enforce and assert their rights there before it's too late.
What rights? Australia does not have a bill of rights. It has a very limited number of fundamental rights outlined in the Constitution but other than that you seem to be pretty much screwed, which explains why these draconian measures always seem to land in Australia first.
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#17From TFA:
>Downloading and using the G2G app is voluntary in WA [Western Australia], but the Government encourages people to use it
So not enforced, right...?
(EDIT: my bad, this refers to an existing app; the new app sounds like it would be a mandated download)
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#18Citizens need to enforce and assert their rights there before it's too late.
We just had hundreds of thousands of people go to the beach yesterday ignoring lockdown orders, I was worried about my country having read things like Gulag Archipelago, but the general population have shown where their line is. Still we're now a police state and the general population doesn't seem to give a shit about that.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you never learn that the definition of a government includes having a monopoly on violence? Australia would essentially become a failed state with your suggestion, and I don't exactly think the government is just going to let that happen.
Australia is already a failed state. That happened the second they decided to imprison their populace and started talking about the "New world order." The state has failed its people, and the only thing left is for it to crumble.
Wow, who was it in their government who was discussing a NWO? Do you have any link / source / context?
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#20Wow. It’s like the twilight zone over there. I’m quite concerned at the lengths governments are going to take away our rights. All in the name of “the good of others”.
That's just the excuse, and the excuses don't come very often so you have to pass as many bs laws while the average voter is in a panic.