The Institute of Public Affairs’ Director of Law and Policy John Storey explains how the federal government’s online censorship bill will seek to silence mainstream opinion online.
The Communication Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill, will require foreign owned social media companies to censor mainstream Australians to the satisfaction of Canberra-based politicians and bureaucrats under the threat of massive fines.
You cannot have a functioning democracy if one side of a debate is silenced. That’s exactly what will happen under the federal government’s proposed laws, which will supercharge online censorship and empower biased ‘fact-checkers’, who have proven they cannot be trusted to be impartial.
Over the coming weeks, John will take you through the details of the proposed changes and talk to leading minds about the insidious nature of the proposed laws and the push by the political class and elites to censor mainstream opinion online.
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