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Comment on Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’

Tweak@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It’s already happened on reddit, various Gaza subreddits are age gated. Anything NSFW is age gated, not just porn but things from Alcoholic Anonymous to chairs Not Fully Submerged in Water on r/chairsunderwater. XBox Live is age gated, because apparently this wasn’t about preventing kids from seeing porn like they originally said but it’s now about preventing children from talking to adults.

However I don’t think it’s to do with Palestine Action specifically. That’s a separate thing, where an organisation that posed a not-insignificant military threat was dealt with in a clunky way using terrorism laws (which cover threats to civilians). I don’t consider those in charge to be clever enough to set all that up in that way; rather, they’d already planned to use the Online Safety Act in this way and would have blocked anything they deemed controversial regardless.

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Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Those in charge are being lobbied by groups such as We Believe in Israel and other Zionist groups to use terror legislation on non violent protest groups that are an inconvenience to the war machine.

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- Tweak@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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  - Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    This is an insane take which requires significant proof. You have any or talking out your racist ass? I’m sorry the group that’s not being persecuted isnt doing enough for Palestine when it’s Europe and America who alone fund the Israeli genocide. Jesus Christ what an lack of critical thinking
    
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    Tweak@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    talking out your racist ass
    
    I’m not going to engage with you. Grow the fuck up.
    
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  - Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s silly. You could at least parrot the official Zionist propaganda that they’re being funded by Iran.
    
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SpaceShort@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s why alternative decentralised social media is so important. It means that we can continue to discuss things that governments do not want us to discuss (today Gaza tomorrow other corporate malfaisance) without regards de the “laws” they come up with to silence free speech.

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