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

Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by ikr678 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:43AM (#28454287)
This is in one of the few jurisdictions worldwide with zero covid trasmission, and the government wishes to keep it that way.
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Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by Clubber on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:07AM (#28456402)
See the argument for having a high transmission also justifies this. It's win-win. If you have low transmission, we need to enact these laws to keep it that way. If it's a high transmission, we need to enact these laws to lower the transmission.

I'm amazed people have this much trust in their government officials. I mean they're just people with the same ethical flaws as everyone else, they just have a lot more power.

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