Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by kongin on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:16AM (#28455166)

It's a third of Australia that's gone insane. The rest have checked out and completely ignored it. It's like a long holiday where you get paid to pretend you work.

But you can't say that in polite company so you just have ~40 percent compliance with whatever insanity is going on now. Hilariously enough the compliance from police is lower than from the general population so basically we have politicians and the terminally online talking about masks, jabs and sign ins and the people who are supposed to enforce it not being bothered with it.

Standing in front of the super market something like one in three pull out their phone, unlock it, point it at the check in qr code and not log in.

I'm reminded of the latter days of the USSR where no one took anything the government said seriously and just did whatever they felt like. Which does not bode well for the current incarnation of Australia long term.

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Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by sk2020 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @08:43AM (#28456183)

>latter days of the USSR

Is it better to prolong the perverse, decadent rule of the senators and consuls or to embrace Clovis? Hit ‘em with your Coriolanus swag.

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Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by wutbrodo on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:47AM (#28456887)

I'm familiar with Clovis (the Frankish king) and Coriolanus (the Shakespearean Roman), but I don't follow the connection you're trying to draw

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Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate by sk2020 on Friday September 10, 2021 @09:05AM (#28480951)

I mean to say the modern courtiers of the decrepit political class are the problem and warrior-kings at the head of barbarians are the solution. Hoppe would call this natural order.

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