Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance
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Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance
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Re: Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance
#2No, we are not complacent. If we leave our home detention to protest anything we are arrested.
Where the fuck can I claim asylum?
Re: Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance
#3It's been an odd experience having a few Australian HN posters attempt to rationalize to me why their police are justified in shooting people who leave their homes with rubber bullets, and why it's normal to be required to take surveillance photos of themselves in their own residences. I guess strict authoritarianism must be accompanied with equally strict media propaganda.
Re: Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance
#4As an Australian, I can definitely say I'm not complacent. The rise of all this surveillance here certainly unnerves me, and has definitely helped hasten my want to emmigrate ASAP.
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#5I don't think there's anything uniquely Australian about this.
Australia is "first" because it is being used as the testing ground for this stuff, but the same playbook will be used in other countries in the coming years, especially those in which Murdoch's (a pretty unapologetic authoritarian) influences extend.
Re: Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance
#6It's been an odd experience having a few Australian HN posters attempt to rationalize to me why their police are justified in shooting people who leave their homes with rubber bullets, and why it's normal to be required to take surveillance photos of themselves in their own residences. I guess strict authoritarianism must be accompanied with equally strict media propaganda.
It's normal for a quarantine. Would you prefer to be locked up in supervised quarantine[1][2][3], instead?
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/quarantine-stations-us.html
Re: Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance
#7It's been an odd experience having a few Australian HN posters attempt to rationalize to me why their police are justified in shooting people who leave their homes with rubber bullets, and why it's normal to be required to take surveillance photos of themselves in their own residences. I guess strict authoritarianism must be accompanied with equally strict media propaganda.
>why it's normal to be required to take surveillance photos of themselves in their own residences.
Say what? Got a link?
Re: Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance
#8It's been an odd experience having a few Australian HN posters attempt to rationalize to me why their police are justified in shooting people who leave their homes with rubber bullets, and why it's normal to be required to take surveillance photos of themselves in their own residences. I guess strict authoritarianism must be accompanied with equally strict media propaganda.
It's normal for a quarantine. Would you prefer to be locked up in supervised quarantine[1][2][3], instead? [1] https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/quarantine-stations-us.html [2] https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/historyquarantine.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine#Modern_history
Anyone who has crossed state lines in the last two weeks is required to follow those quarantine measures. They have fewer than 10 deaths per state combined with very high vaccination rates. From the outside looking in, it seems wholly unjustified.
Re: Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance
#9They aren’t complacent. They are harassed, beaten and arrested if they object.
Absolutely disgusting what the government there is doing to our Australian brothers and sisters. And of course no media coverage to speak of in the states.
Re: Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance
#10I don't think there's anything uniquely Australian about this. Australia is "first" because it is being used as the testing ground for this stuff, but the same playbook will be used in other countries in the coming years, especially those in which Murdoch's (a pretty unapologetic authoritarian) influences extend.
Authoritarian Australia.. it's like we're living in an Europa Universalis Mod