Re:The Australian federal government is planning to de-anony...
by rstuart4133 on Friday September 03, 2021 @06:24AM
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"The Australian Government is planning" is possibly a wee exaggeration. It was one of 88 recommendations from a federal government committee investigating "federal parliament inquiry into family, domestic and sexual violence" [0]
> prevent people from setting up anonymous accounts, and make them liable for defamation suits or even criminal prosecution for menacing messages or harassment.
It's true this could be yet another authoritarian push from a committee chaired by the LNP (oh, what irony: a party founded on the principles of John Stuart Mill championing authoritarianism). However, in the circumstances a mixture political opportunism and gross subject matter incompetence in a cross party committee seems a far more likely explanation.
According to the chairman of the committee, the reasoning behind it is https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/technology/57f90da1085b5b8... :
> prevent people from setting up anonymous accounts, and make them liable for defamation suits or even criminal prosecution for menacing messages or harassment.
It's true this could be yet another authoritarian push from a committee chaired by the LNP (oh, what irony: a party founded on the principles of John Stuart Mill championing authoritarianism). However, in the circumstances a mixture political opportunism and gross subject matter incompetence in a cross party committee seems a far more likely explanation.
[0] https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Hou...