Australia seizes on recent knife attacks to revive its paused misinformation bill, despite free speech concerns.

The Australian government is seeking to exploit two recent knife attacks to relaunch its misinformation bill after it was put on ice late last year over free speech concerns.

From X:

Australia’s misinformation bill has been reintroduced to parliament. The bill is fundamentally flawed because it is built on the industry code co-written by First Draft, participants in the Aspen Institute’s Hunter Biden laptop suppression exercise:

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J.Battacharya on the bill:

The Australian labour government is pushing a bill to destroy social media companies that fail to censor content it doesn’t like.

The “bill would allow the Australian Media and Communications Alliance (ACMA) to levy fines of up to… five percent of a company’s global turnover if they deem a [social media] platform has taken insufficient steps to remove “disinformation.””

h/t arnott