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Australia's Misinformation Bill · The Slippery Slope

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  Well, I've been keeping a track of this Freedom of Information
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  or Misinformation bill that's been slowly making its way
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  through Australian government, through the.
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  The media doing the rounds, it's like it's like they're just
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  slowly drip feeding us information because they know
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  very well that Australians are going to be very much against
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  this, that media is going to be pushing back.
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  But it seems like if they just drip feed us information, tell
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  us little bits and pieces about what they want, what's going on,
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  you know, then then they can slowly get people.
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  It's just my opinion. It seems like they they do this
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  thing, they drip feeders because then they slowly get people used
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  to used to the idea. However, more people seem to be
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  pushing back. I think in the long run it'll
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  all come through because I think that's the it's really the goal
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  anyways, to have it no matter what, no matter what the
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  Australian public's opinion on it.
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  It is their goal. To have this misinformation
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  bill. Of course the biggest problem
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  with this misinformation bill is all you do is have other people
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  deciding what is misinformation, what is disinformation.
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  And as we saw during the the Plan endemic period, the people
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  who are deciding what is misinformation and
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  disinformation were themselves not just being deceived what,
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  but were being deceitful. And and passing on
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  misinformation, disinformation. And then when you were if if you
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  have the nails to go and and actually find out the truth or
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  or sit there and question things, well, then they will
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  say, well misinformation, disinformation, you're you're
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  sowing doubts. Who were you to be talking?
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  Who were you to say to ask questions anyway?
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  Let's just go through this article just explaining a bit
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  more about what's happening at the moment.
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  So Labour's to overhaul misinformation bill after
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  objections over freedom of speech.
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  Of course there's a there are much bigger issues here.
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  But this is just, this is just one of the starting points.
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  Eventually the the control of information is where it's all at
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  controlling. It's being able to disseminate
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  information how they want and not having not having people
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  question. Just being docile, little little
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  lambs just going heading to the slaughter, basically, the
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  Albanese government will overhaul a draft bill targeting
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  misinformation and disinformation online, up to
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  strong push back against the proposal.
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  It will also delay introducing this legislation into parliament
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  into 20 until 2024. The draft legislation relief
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  consultation earlier this year. Would have allowed the
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  Australian Communications and Media Authority to require
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  social media companies to toughen their policies on
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  content. Content that is false,
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  misleading or deceptive, and where the provision of that
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  content on the service is reasonably likely to cause or
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  contribute to serious harm. Now I don't have to tell.
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  I don't have to tell any of you that you know.
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  They they're going to require social media companies to
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  toughen their policies, you know, which just leads us to
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  social media companies deciding what the misinformation or what
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  the disinformation is. They will suddenly be deciding
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  again when they already do it, what is wrong and who are they.
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  And the problem is, they are the cause of the problem.
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  They they they set up these companies and and decide no, no,
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  what you're saying is false. They shape the false narrative.
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  They shape the lies. It's and then this.
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  They shape the lies. If you dare question anything,
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  well then, hey, you're conspiracy theorists.
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  You're you're you're spreading disinformation pretty soon.
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  Not very. Not very far down the track.
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  You're going to be facing jail sentences, jail terms, if you're
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  if it's decided that you have been feeding disinformation,
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  dishonest information, and who are the ones that decide it is
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  dishonest or deceiving or disinformation, it's them.
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  They are the regulators. The consultation drew 23,000
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  responses, including 3000 submissions.
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  Many of which were critical of the bill.
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  The large response also came after campaigns against the bill
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  from the Coalition 1 Nation and former LNP MP George
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  Christensen. The aim was to give ACMA ACMA
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  more powers to enforce an already in place voluntary
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  industry code that includes companies such as Meta X, which
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  formerly Twitter, Microsoft and Google Now.
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  We we do remember that even X or Elon Musk, it was virtually just
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  X really. He just spent billions of
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  dollars so he can have his own platform to say whatever, you
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  know, he he'd pointed out he he'd given us the information
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  and shown us how companies like Facebook or Meta and other
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  companies had stifled information and stifled stifled
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  information getting out there. Such as the Barden laptop
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  scenario. OK, they'd start with the
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  information. They said no, no, this is a fake
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  narrative, fake story. Couple of years later, oh,
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  hello, wait up. We've proven now that it is
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  actually true. But you know, it's too late now.
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  The effect that it would have had had when the information
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  first came to light, if they hadn't have starved for the
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  story, could have really affected the American election.
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  You know, to a much greater degree, obviously.
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  Not to mention the fact that it overlooked, you know, the the IT
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  overlooked the issues of illegal behavior by the now president's
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  son and some illegal activity that maybe the now president
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  Smokey Joe might have been a party to, might have had
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  knowledge of. So you know, they've already
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  been, they've already had this this coming in where they can
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  decide what the misinformation is and they've done the wrong
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  thing. But now they want to give them
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  more, more power, want to go back to that, where they give
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  them more power. Going back to this, those
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  opposed claimed companies would over censor, over censor.
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  Remember what happened. Remember what happened during
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  the COVID. The COVID plan they would over
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  censor to avoid being fined by ACMA, which would gain
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  information gathering powers and could also fine individuals and
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  companies for providing false evidence during this process up
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  to 6.875 million. Sorry, is that 6.875 million or
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  Crikey? 5% of global turnover, whichever
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  one's the difference. On Sunday, the communications
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  minister, Michelle Rowland, said the government would take on
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  board the responses in the public consultation and would
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  improve the bill. You actually don't need the
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  bill, but they're just going to change it anyway.
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  They're they're going to keep it.
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  The government is considering refinements to the bill,
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  including including to definitions, exemptions and
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  clarification on religious freedom.
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  Among other things, this obviously also helps lead me to
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  one of the main issues I've got with this bill.
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  You know, they decide they're deciding with religious freedom.
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  Obviously we've got a lot of groups now that take umbrage
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  with that, take issue with things that are said in the
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  Bible. People overlook anything that
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  might be said in. I won't even say the name of it,
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  but in the in that other religious text which is followed
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  by, you know, a billion or so people around the world, people
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  overlooked that. But people are obviously very
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  much getting insulted by by scripture in the in the Bible.
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  We're going to see a clamp down and I've been saying this for a
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  long time, we're going to see clamp down on.
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  On the Bible, we're gonna I believe this is eventually
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  leading to the Bible being declared a book of hate speech.
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  We've also, we've already seen nations like China rewrite the
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  Bible just for their own, you know, for their own needs, for
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  their own desires, to suit their own, their own will.
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  But we're going to see the the Bible.
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  Declared as hate speech, I believe, and I think this is
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  that bills like this are going to be used for, for things like
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  that, so continuing on, she said.
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  The government remain committed to holding powerful digital
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  platforms to account for seriously harmful misinformation
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  and disinformation on their services in the face of
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  seriously harmful content that sows division, undermines
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  support for pillars of our democracy or disrupts public
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  health responses doing nothing. Is not an option.
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  Under the proposed legislation, ACMA ACMA would not direct
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  companies to remove pieces of content, but rather focus on the
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  processes the company has in place to tackle misinformation,
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  ACMA Chair Narada O'Loughlin told Senate estimates last
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  month. Wow.
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  So basically they are just going to be deciding what is
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  misinformation and disinformation.
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  Putting up the penalties to seriously hold back public
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  debate do not sow any kind of seeds of dissent.
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  Do not question anything. Don't you dare not believe the
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  narrative that the government has put out now.
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  Well, let's just go back to one thing, just one thing.
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  Over the last couple of years that's come to light.
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  Put aside what happened with the American election, even though a
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  lot of people still believe, and there is a lot of evidence, not
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  just people's opinions, evidence to show that the election was
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  tampered with by who knows, you know, the little fairies out
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  there tampered with the election.
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  Forget that. The narrative, let's go back to
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  the narrative of the Plan demick.
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  The narrative by all governments, by our our
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  government especially, and other Western governments.
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  It was that the plan Demick was completely accidental.
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  It was just an act of nature. And you know, the fact that it
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  started in a certain area in China.
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  And that right next door to that little wet market where it all
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  came out of was this other laboratory where they actually
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  produced the very virus that was affecting, killing a lot of
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  people around the world. Just coincidence.
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  That's just one massive coincidence.
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  Don't seed. Don't.
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  Don't sow any seeds of misinformation, disinformation.
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  Don't question the narrative. There is no way, no way a little
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  laboratory laboratory in China where the security is not so
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  tough. There's no way there would have
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  been leak. Obviously it all came out of
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  just coincidentally, just an act of nature from the wet market
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  next door. And don't you dare question it.
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  No, we have to go along with the government.
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  The government narrative, that's that's all they're doing.
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  That's all they're doing. They want us to go along with
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  the government narrative. Eventually this will lead to the
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  Bible being declared a book of hate speech and it will be
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  banned. I would suggest you start
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  getting your own Bibles if you if you know if that's what you
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  want to do, if you believe in the Bible, if you're a
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  Christian, I would suggest you well, you take steps.
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  To be able to read the word of God yourself in the future.
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  Anyway, these are things. This is where it's going.
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  They continue to treat us like idiots.
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  The Australian government says, Oh yeah, OK, well, we're gonna
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  seriously listen to the Australian public, but we all
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  know that they will push this through no matter what.
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  It will go down this road. And it's just about them
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  controlling the information, Controlling the narrative.
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  Well, they say it's to help. It's to help stem the flow of
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  harmful content that is just a load of crock.
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  It is to help them be able to control the narrative and put
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  out, to be able to control the narrative that they want and
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  stifle free speech within this nation.
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  That is my opinion. And if you can change my mind on
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  that, tell me, say something, let me know, add a comment, tell
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  me why I'm wrong. Tell me why I'm wrong.
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  That this is not just the government trying to stifle, not
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  not just stifle, actually it's not a strong enough word is that
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  they're just trying to prevent free speech and trying to
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  control, completely control the narrative.
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  And they will be the authors of. The false narrative In the
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  future, tell me. Explain to me why I'm wrong.
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  Anyway, it's just my opinion. Let me know what you think.
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  I'm Jay Fallon. Thanks for listening to the
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