Microsoft says encryption laws make companies wary of storing data in Australia

Re:Microsoft says encryption laws make companies wary of sto... by tacticus on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @06:59PM (#19507102)

You have to go. you don't have to pick. Makes it difficult for states to disenfranchise people through budget cuts.

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Re:Microsoft says encryption laws make companies wary of sto... by chii on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @08:06PM (#19507645)

By the time and effort spent going to vote, I bet nobody will just cast a null vote.

Compulsory voting is more democratic. The USA should make voting compulsory!

Ditto with the brexit referendum! If only they made it compulsory, brexit would have probably not passed (presumably many people just didn't expect brexit to win, and so didn't bother going to vote).

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Re:Microsoft says encryption laws make companies wary of sto... by aesthethiccs on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @08:26PM (#19507790)

> I bet nobody will just cast a null vote.

Have you heard of the term donkey voting? null votes in Australia are about 5% of total votes (federally) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-04/informal-votes-to-hav...

Also it's only sorta compulsory in a sense, you can just never register and never have to vote. but if you do register you will get fined if you don't vote. the amount of unregistered voters is about 4% of the population. so at it's worst it's atleast more representative then some other democracies.

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