Australian Senate, last sitting of the year. No idea when the Social Media Ban debate is kicking off.

If anyone’s keen, feel free to give a live run-down of anything interesting in this thread.

(sorry about all the edits, just trying to get a decent thumbnail: elevated photo of the Australian Senate)

  • Cypher
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    6 hours ago

    I have warned about this. Access to online services will soon be locked behind your mygov id.

    These plans have been in motion for a long time.

    • Quokka 🇦🇺@mastodon.au
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      6 hours ago

      @Cypher @rcbrk With a nice link between any nicks/profiles/gamer-tags you have and your actual MyGovID.
      Mmmm mmm mmm smell that lovely data!
      ASIO must be practically creaming themselves.

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        4 hours ago

        Games are explicitly excluded from this law.

        Which is kinda fucking ridiculous, as pointed out in debate, because in-game chat is often some of the most toxic you’ll encounter.