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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 @01:15AM (#28453310)
I don't think it is moving towards being an authoritarian police state any more than any other western country, and I wouldn't want to live in a country where citizens had easy access to guns, and suffered the violence and mass shootings that seem to come from that, like in the US.

Hope that helps.

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Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by gorwell on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:08PM (#28461671)
"I don't think it is moving towards being an authoritarian police state any more than any other western country"

The example on which this thread is based, and otherwise discussed within this thread (checking in every 15 minutes with the state or be visited by the police), is well beyond other western countries and especially the USA at this point. We'll see if that holds.

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