Yesterday, RedState reported on South Australia’s Crazy new facial recognition app This will be used to ensure that people are in the “right position”. People will randomly receive a government message asking them to take out their mobile phones and prove their whereabouts, and only have 15 minutes to respond.This is a series of authoritarian and severe COVID mitigation measures This has achieved results in a way that was once a free country.
But, as if to make me feel stupid that the situation would not get worse, Australia put the beer on the table and continued to jump off the cliff without a parachute while singing Friday’s song.
As a way to combat “online abuse,” a parliamentary investigation proposed a new measure to monitor social media accounts and “de-anonymize” the Internet. The Scott Morrison administration believes these reforms are valuable.
The Australian Federal Government is planning to de-anonymize the Internet to introduce a social credit system to combat “online abuse”-the police will have access to personal social media accounts, which will be linked to people’s passports. pic.twitter.com/C2ZsYZjEGH
— Ms. Amina (@Alpha_Mind7) September 2, 2021
If George Orwell was still alive, he would be angry for not raising this first. However, this is not some aspect of the story in the novel. On the contrary, it is real life, and it takes place in a place that is said to be a free and democratic society (although, it clearly no longer exists).
According to the report, Australia wants to force its residents to register their social media accounts with the government, thereby eliminating anonymity on the Internet. Your online identity will be linked to your passport or driving photo. From there, the police can step in and report someone for defamation or refer them for possible criminal charges.
It is not an exaggeration to say that this proposal is crazy. This is the kind of domineering, top-down surveillance that Nazi Germany would drool. In addition, this is beyond the COVID problem, which is a key point here. In the past year and a half, we have seen global authoritarianism taking root under the guise of “saving lives” due to the coronavirus. But this has nothing to do with the epidemic. It’s just that Australia is very authoritarian because they can. This is a bad omen for the classical liberalism that once flourished in countries with Western values.
The Australian people will have to find out where this route is really fast and execute it, because they will lose their country forever. There is no turning back for such a thing, and their leadership obviously has no intention of letting go.
