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A comment on Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate. Parent comment

Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by Nursie on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:33AM (#28453062)
And in democracies like the UK, people who don’t vote are disregarded as lazy and ignored too.

I agree, you should be able to withhold as a protest, in practice it’s 100% meaningless.

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Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by chrisseaton on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:01AM (#28453226)
They aren’t ignored - parties try to woo them over.
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Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by Nursie on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:18AM (#28453332)
In a system where there are many more parties, and ballots can still be spoiled, I don't see how that would be different.
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