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Let’s cut to the chase: this Bill is about protecting the ‘settled science’ of ‘global boiling’

18 August 2023

6:00 AM

18 August 2023

6:00 AM

Dear Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA),

I write regarding the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023.

In summary, it is eerily similar to decrees handed down by the Soviet Union in 1918, Italy in 1923, Germany in 1933, Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe in the late 1940s, China in 1955 (with the publication of State Council Instructions on How to Deal with Anti-revolutionary, Obscene, and Preposterous Books, Magazines, and Pictures), North Korea in 1956, North Vietnam in 1956, Cuba 1959, Vietnam in 1975, Iran in 1979, Zimbabwe in 2001 and Venezuela in 2009 … plus every other dictatorship in history.

None of these...

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