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The ASS Access Bill — More Australian Government Overreach?

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Editor’s note:

Blame it on the ‘terrorists’ and the ‘pedos’! The Australian Government has released a draft Bill [The Assistance and Access Bill 2018] designed to compel device manufacturers and service providers to assist the accessing of encrypted information. To quote Home Affairs’ website:

“Encryption and other forms of electronic protection are vital security measures that protect private, commercial and Government data and make the communications and devices of all people more secure. However, these security measures are also being employed by terrorists, child sex offenders and criminal organisations to mask illegal conduct. The exploitation of modern communications technology for illicit ends is a significant obstacle to the lawful access of communications by Australia’s law enforcement and national security agencies.”

But they don’t need to crack any of your data to interview Fiona Barnett or Rachel Vaughn, do they?

We know this Bill will further infringe on privacy, but will it grant broad, sweeping powers to government agencies requiring companies to provide information about how their systems work? Will this harm the security and stability of our communications and the internet at large?

Have your say at Digital Rights Watch, here. And watch the excellent video (above) from Juice Media — produced by the Home of Au Pairs.

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  3. Amazing how these Asses never have time to pass important Bills like: The Banking System Reform (Separation of Banks) Bill 2018 that Bob Katter MP introduced in Parliament on 25 June, for a Glass-Steagall structural separation of deposit-taking commercial banks, from risky investment banking and all other financial services.

    This Bill will save depositors and small business savings from the grasp of the Bankster in the event of the financial collapse that is upon us.

    But no, there is more important legislation to pass whereby, Mr and Mrs Citizen must give up more freedom and be harassed further by Intelligence Agencies.

  4. The government is busy looking into:

    “THE hotly anticipated inquiry into Peter Dutton’s au pair saga has got off to an explosive start…

    But surely that is what we EXPECT: The politicians look after themselves…

  5. Meanwhile our latest Prime Doh signed a Free Trade agreement with Indonesia yesterday that included a ” Freedom to Move ” component for their country. Jihadhis anyone ? You could not make this up could you ?

  6. And does anyone still think that the institutionalised (ideological) perversity can be “fixed” by the plaintive moaning or wailing of the victims?

    • “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” – Frederick Douglass

      Does anyone still doubt why the government sanctioned the Port Arthur Massacre and the firearm confiscation?

      • Douglass’ observation is pertinent… I’d not heard that one before.

        But I contend that media tyrants do not accommodate a vestigial or native recognition of truth and virtue… surviving despite irrational fashions…. the few “just men” have the onerous duty to defend their household against the assaults of all kinds of perversity; the worst of which is “progressivism”

  7. I am afraid of real terrorists.
    They meet in cafes and speak in whispers.
    They whisper whilst bathing their feet.
    Some even communicate facing a urinal in a pub.
    Paedophiles, in anonimity seek forgiveness in a cloistered confessional.
    Refuseniks opine at dinner parties.
    Landscapers converse with their lawn mowers.
    Some even have a quiet word with their parrot.
    Clearly the ass act is not comprehensive enough to sufficiently protect us.
    We have to place a chip in every being to properly protect us from evil.
    Cannot wait to have one inserted in all humanity. The chips divulging all of our pollies, journalists and bureaucrats will be the most interesting.
    Cannot wait.

  8. I must explain.
    My comment above is not satire.
    I have looked at present episodes of juice in
    Media and Adam Bant’s adddress in parliament on a ass act.
    Dear pollies, I try not to be satirical and be subject to imprisonment.
    I am a simple old soul, just with a genuine personal view of you rsoles. Please forgive me, I am merely exhibiting what I think of you lot.

  9. Three blind mice. Three blind mice. See how they run…

    Did you ever see such a sight in your life

    as what’s going to happen when we fix these guys’ wagons?

    Three blind mice.

  10. There was a Home Minister who lived in a shoe
    He had so many portfolios he didn’t know what to do,

    He tried to pull a shocker
    But there was only one bullet in the locker

    And now the au pairs make him blue.

  11. Speaking of political humour, has nobody twigged that our nation is now led by a fundamentalist Christian; one who fervently believes that poverty is the just punishment by God for our sins, and that the rich are wealthy because God is rewarding them for their righteousness.

    One thing all religious fundamentalists have in common is a primitive sense of humour, which most definitely excludes satire.

    You can be sure that Scott will suffer from no qualms of conscience when he hammers the filthy seditionists (satirists)… because by now he surely knows he is the Hand of God, Who Can Do No Wrong.

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