Australia to introduce new laws to force media platforms to unmask online trolls
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#2>The online world should not be a wild west where bots and bigots and trolls and others are anonymously going around and can harm people
I can't express how much I hate this. The online world SHOULD be a wild west, away from government reach, in my opinion.
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#3>The online world should not be a wild west where bots and bigots and trolls and others are anonymously going around and can harm people I can't express how much I hate this. The online world SHOULD be a wild west, away from government reach, in my opinion.
The Wild West lasted 30 years. Significant amounts of land damage, violence against women and indigenous people happened. Cowboys were overwhelmingly Spanish speaking. It wasn't America's finest libertarian dream, cattle barons exploited everyone, consumers included. Chicago was a nightmare of meat packing. Mass immigration was in full swing.
No part of the world is away from government reach, you espouse a fantasy.
Re: Australia to introduce new laws to force media platforms to unmask online trolls
#4>The online world should not be a wild west where bots and bigots and trolls and others are anonymously going around and can harm people I can't express how much I hate this. The online world SHOULD be a wild west, away from government reach, in my opinion.
Yes agreed. All the more so because it's a voluntary, pretend environment. There is a sibling post grasping to explain why the wild west was not as romantic as it seems and pretending the analogy holds for the internet. The post is silly, but at least the west was a real place that people had to live in. Acting like we need to monitor and regulate every corner of the internet is absurd, but then again, this is Australia isnt it.
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#5The way Australia is going, it seems clear they just want to be able to stifle all dissent.
Re: Australia to introduce new laws to force media platforms to unmask online trolls
#6>The online world should not be a wild west where bots and bigots and trolls and others are anonymously going around and can harm people I can't express how much I hate this. The online world SHOULD be a wild west, away from government reach, in my opinion.
The Wild West lasted 30 years. Significant amounts of land damage, violence against women and indigenous people happened. Cowboys were overwhelmingly Spanish speaking. It wasn't America's finest libertarian dream, cattle barons exploited everyone, consumers included. Chicago was a nightmare of meat packing. Mass immigration was in full swing. No part of the world is away from government reach, you espouse a fantasy.
Your answer not true. In fact, the "Wild West" is still in fact a reality.
1. Land damage as in the largest public lands system in the world? 2. Violence against women who were among the first in the world given the right to vote? 3. Violence against people that were plenty violent? 4. Cowboys spoke many languages. Your point is what? 5. Chicago is the "Wild West", huh? 6. Immigration is good, depending.
Leave the internet out of your politics, please.
Re: Australia to introduce new laws to force media platforms to unmask online trolls
#7Australia’s proximity to China is maybe affecting its western ideals. This is one of many things it’s done and doing recently to make it a less free country and this can only be a slippery slope which they are already sliding on.
Re: Australia to introduce new laws to force media platforms to unmask online trolls
#8>The online world should not be a wild west where bots and bigots and trolls and others are anonymously going around and can harm people I can't express how much I hate this. The online world SHOULD be a wild west, away from government reach, in my opinion.
>The online world SHOULD be a wild west, away from government reach, in my opinion.
I would agree to an extent, but I think there are a few examples where the government should step in. Child porn being the biggest.
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#9Scott Morrison made a big deal of his intention to use the recent meetings between world leaders to build an international consensus around this issue.
Instead, he was humiliated when the president of France called him out as a liar over his mishandling of submarine contracts, and no one wanted to talk to him.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Wild West lasted 30 years. Significant amounts of land damage, violence against women and indigenous people happened. Cowboys were overwhelmingly Spanish speaking. It wasn't America's finest libertarian dream, cattle barons exploited everyone, consumers included. Chicago was a nightmare of meat packing. Mass immigration was in full swing. No part of the world is away from government reach, you espouse a fantasy.
Your answer not true. In fact, the "Wild West" is still in fact a reality. 1. Land damage as in the largest public lands system in the world? 2. Violence against women who were among the first in the world given the right to vote? 3. Violence against people that were plenty violent? 4. Cowboys spoke many languages. Your point is what? 5. Chicago is the "Wild West", huh? 6. Immigration is good, depending. Leave the in…
> Leave the internet out of your politics, please.
Your comment would have a lot more value without this cheap attack. The article and all the comments are about the politics of the internet. OP has the right to express their opinion, however wrong they might feel to you.