Tau@aussie.zone 1 day ago
It will be an offence to use a carriage service to access material on the manufacture or modification of guns and accessories, as well as other explosives or lethal devices.
This has such broad potential for misapplication, but apparently everyone throws critical thinking out the window because guns are scary…
I think the gun number limit is also a kneejerk reaction playing more on people’s fears rather than actually being logical, but at least it’s affecting less people than the above.
Thought crime is so awesome.
You looking up info about poisonous plants? Clearly a murderer! Read true crime describing how someone stalked someone? Obviously you’re about to do it.
Thought crime wooh all aboard the fucking thought crime train. Intent? Harm? No you thought bad thoughts and gained black and fell knowledge. To the torture cells with you!
Is “carriage service” a weird legal way of saying bus?
It’s a way of saying a method of transmitting information. Replace ‘a carriage service’ with ‘the internet’ and you’d cover much (albeit not all) of the intention there.
Oh I see. Doesn’t the anarchist cookbook txt that’s been going around for decades tell you how to make dum-dum rounds?
Probably, I did find a copy of that as a kid but it’s been long enough that I can’t recall specifics.
That is something that could fall under the new rule though, as could watching youtube videos of people modding guns, or gun owners finding a maintenance manual for the guns they own, or if particularly misapplied even things like getting an ebook that happens to mention an aside about weapons/explosive manufacture (pretty sure Jules Verne describes a way to make explosives in The Mysterious Island for example).
No.
Carriage service is pretty standard these days. Apparently it came about when people would transfer small amounts of money into other people’s accounts with threatening messages attached to the transfer
The whole law is one knee-jerk shitheap, brought on by a media and population demanding the government do ‘something’
There’s precisely one thing in this law that might have actually prevented the massacre and it’s the more rigourous background checks.
Tbh i think it’s one of those laws they can throw to get you on something when they have nothing else.
Dimand@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I would say it’s pretty typical of all Aus communication and intelligence legislation from the last 20 years. Put total overreach into the legislation then apply it selectively, because scary terrorists or scary guns or fucking bunyips, idk.
I have seen a lot of wives and mates getting gun licences recently. Pretty easy way to overcome the rather pointless quantity limitations. In some ways I worry the number limits may actually increase the spread of firearms in the country.