With all poll results indicating the Voice to Parliament is about to be firmly rejected by the majority of Australians, there are concerns Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will use the result to double-down on the appalling Misinformation/Disinformation Bill.
Albanese has already trotted out the 'misinformation' line on multiple occasions during the Voice campaign, declaring genuine concerns and authentic challenges to the Yes rhetoric as misinformation, rather than accepting alternate points of view as central to healthy debate.
To display such arrogance and dismiss the views of everyday Australians is one thing, to legislate their silence is quite another.
The bill seeks to hand the government power to dictate what constitutes misinformation or disinformation and coerce or pressure social media companies into removing content they deem unacceptable.
When passed, huge fines could be issued to social media companies if they fail to remove from their platforms content the Albanese Labor Government deems to be misinformation or disinformation. It resembles an Orwellian 1984 style ‘ministry of truth’.
There is recent evidence from the pandemic that what is deemed ‘disinformation’ by the government is often proven to be true. Are we to deny our citizens access to truth? How much truth will be hidden from Australians?
Mainstream professional media, federal, state and local government, as well as woke educational institutions, are excluded from censorship under the bill.
Hardly encouraging when we have already seen how manipulated mainstream media outlets are and how they will follow a government narrative, particularly if their advertising revenue is threatened.
Regardless of its political origins, bad legislation is bad legislation. This is as bad as it gets.
All Australians, no matter who they voted for, should be prepared for the Albanese Government to use the defeat of the Voice as a justification for another attack on our freedom and right to free speech.
Don't stand for it.
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