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[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (6 children)

That's a really fucking stupid law. Do we need to worry about Australia becoming fascist?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I don't want to believe this, my brain is refusing to process that statement, I have stared at that article in a state of disbelief for a minute. Surely someone can't be that stupid, right?

I have heard plenty of brain dead arguments by anti-encryption people, but this is by far the stupidest. There is no way, there is just no way that he's so.... I want to say brain dead, but that would imply that there is even a brain there for it to be dead.

Regardless of political affiliation, or even the individual's stance on encryption, surely there can't be a single person that heard that statement and didn't laugh at it, right?

Perhaps the Australian stereotype of being upside down holds some truth, considering his... utterance; he must walk on his hands and constantly get bit by snakes and attacked by drop bears on his daily commute, that's the only explanation for how someone can make such a statement

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
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