{"id":70475,"date":"2024-09-15T05:16:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T05:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/?p=70475"},"modified":"2024-09-15T05:20:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T05:20:51","slug":"mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/mad\/","title":{"rendered":"MAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>MAD<\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Misinformation and Disinformation<\/strong><\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The magnificent Russell Broadbent MP on Albanese\u2019s Misinformation &amp; Disinformation (MAD) Bill,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are truly unprecedented times. In my 25 years in the parliament, I&#8217;ve never seen legislation like it.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the country I grew up in, and it&#8217;s heading in a direction\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wmh3OXP9to\">pic.twitter.com\/wmh3OXP9to<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Craig Kelly (@craigkellyXXX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/craigkellyXXX\/status\/1834508444399010237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This was posted by Craig Kelly:<\/p>\n<p>The magnificent Russell Broadbent MP on Albanese\u2019s Misinformation &amp; Disinformation (MAD) Bill,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are truly unprecedented times. In my 25 years in the parliament, I&#8217;ve never seen legislation like it.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the country I grew up in, and it&#8217;s heading in a direction that makes me fear for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>Today I urge Australians to stand up and speak out on this bill while they still can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No wonder the kicked him out of the Liberal Party<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s his full speech \u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Mr BROADBENT (Monash) (16:29): Today is a dark day and one that does not bode well for the nation. The government&#8217;s so-called combatting misinformation bill marks the beginning of the end for free speech and democracy in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake, this bill is another alarming example of overreach and a step towards government tyranny over what we can and cannot discuss.<\/p>\n<p>It gives the government unfettered power and control over Australians and their right to exchange ideas, thoughts and opinions.<br \/>\nDo you realise what we&#8217;re risking here?<\/p>\n<p>Free speech is the bedrock of democracy, and, as Benjamin Franklin said, there is no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>The bill compels digital platform providers like X and Facebook to censor content that may contribute to serious harm.<\/p>\n<p>But who makes that decision?<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s the arbiter of truth?<\/p>\n<p>One of the bill&#8217;s definitions of content that may cause serious harm is content that may cause serious harm to &#8216;public health in Australia, including the efficacy of preventative health measures&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Where have I heard those words before?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion (mine)&#8230;..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is the same in every Western Country and Europe.\u00a0 Massive censorship and control through Digital ID coming.\u00a0 \u00a0Banning social media or controling it.\u00a0 \u00a0We can&#8217;t have been calling out genocide now can we?\u00a0 \u00a0Or worse still they might crticize the banks.\u00a0 \u00a0 Now Musk is most certainly not a good guy but these people are just hateful with their smarmy false pretense that it is about &#8220;child safety&#8221;\u00a0 or &#8220;protecting the indigenous&#8221;\u00a0 (the voice) or &#8220;saving woman from abuse&#8221;\u00a0 bla. blah, gaslighting blah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anthony Albanese responds to Elon Musk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Anthony Albanese responds to Elon Musk\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m5i47kQ5TZU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAD Misinformation and Disinformation The magnificent Russell Broadbent MP on Albanese\u2019s Misinformation &amp; Disinformation (MAD) Bill, &#8220;These are truly unprecedented times. In my 25 years in the parliament, I&#8217;ve never seen legislation like it. This is not the country I grew up in, and it&#8217;s heading in a direction\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/wmh3OXP9to \u2014 Craig Kelly (@craigkellyXXX) September [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5809],"tags":[1424,523,6108,3215,431],"class_list":["post-70475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","tag-disinformation","tag-lies","tag-misinformation","tag-totalitarianism","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70480,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70475\/revisions\/70480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}