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)

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    This comment right here. Not a fan of this bill at all and may potentially leave any platform that demands this information and/or ‘digital id’.

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      3 months ago

      Moving countries here. just gonna post on this instance for nostalgia

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            If I had better earning potential I probably would have absconded to Europe

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            The GDPR has been completely ineffective.

            Instead of preventing immoral businesses from collecting our data, it has forced moral and immoral businesses to make their websites completely useless unless we give them explicit permission to collect our data. We get that stupid, ineffectual modal pop up whenever we visit their site, and no matter how many permissions we give them, they are forced to ask every time.

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        The thing is All-The-Countries are just as bad (if not worse).

        At least we have preferential voting in Australia so (if we can educate our idiotic fellow voters) we have a (theoretical) chance to vote both major parties out.