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Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by laurent92 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:43AM (#28453479)
> In 2007 the government 'temporarily' banned alcohol and porn for aboriginals as an 'emergency' measure.[0] And apparently it, or some replacement, is still in effect.[1]

In 1976 France implemented a temporary permission to abortion, just to hedge the wave. A lot of social rights come from temporary laws that were never deactivated.

Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by selcuka on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:56AM (#28453564)
To be fair temporary permissions are harder to take back. It's not the same as a temporary ban.