Fighting for the right to hate | The West Report

Labor and the Coalition are close to Parliament to quickly pass a package of antisemitism, hate speech, extremism and gun reform laws. #auspol

Prohibition doesn’t work, and these laws won’t work either.

We explain what the Hate Speech Bill is trying to do, why “adjacent circumstances” could become a compliance nightmare, and why vague definitions could give the executive branch enormous power to decide who counts as a hate group and who to target next.

David Shoebridge on hate group conspiracy: https://x.com/DavidShoebridge/status/2013412134236168389

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Departments
00:00 Context, satire and “forbidden words” comedy
01:05 Adjacent terms, Nick Riemer and the creepy effect
03:19 Senate power plays, protest rights and censorship pressure
09:05 Palantir, surveillance policies and what’s overlooked

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