As if barring the release of specific games they find inexcusable wasn’t enough, Australia’s government is pushing for legislation that will allow them to search through private user data in video games, all for the sake of “stopping cyber crime” – although trawling through the data for evidence of hate speech or other criminalized wrongthink might well be the next step.
Technology companies will be forced to release all their data to the government, especially ones that manage private messaging in video games – so as to better allow law enforcers to put a stop to “cyber” crimes.
Elaborating on the reasoning, the government believes that criminals and evildoers utilize social media and messaging in video games to concoct their diabolical plans:
“We know that more than 90 per cent of data lawfully intercepted by the Australian Federal Police now uses some form of encryption.
“This has directly impacted around 200 serious criminal and terrorism-related investigations in the last 12 months alone,” […]
“These reforms will allow law enforcement and interception agencies to access specific communications without compromising the security of a network. The measures expressly prevent the weakening of encryption or the introduction of so-called backdoors.”
Considering the messaging history of the average gamer – let alone what goes on in voice chat, which it is undoubtedly already possible for AIs to pore through – such measures will surely open up an enticing plethora of new investigations of inconvenient people for the police and civil servants.
Not scary at all
Australians must really love and trust their politicians. A peculiar people.
the current government cant even trust themselves, we havent trusted them for like 5 years now.
The place is almost entirely uninhabited like Canada. It’s a s♥♥t hole of nothingness, but it makes good navy/army bases so we pretend like it matters.
They switch politicians like condoms and *still* get fuckin corrupt as s♥♥t politicians to lead their half-arid assholes.
“Anti-authoritarian” for them means “I don’t give a s♥♥t as my betters ass-f♥♥k me, steal money from neighbouring countries to feed the elite, embarrass themselves by showing refugees dying like dogs on some convict ship like my ancestors and suck china’s dick while I weeb it out”.
people who believe that switching politician will actually change anything are stupid.
Let’s just nuke Australia already. Most of the country looks like it stepped right out of a Fallout game anyways, and their government has their heads up their collective asses even further than any member of the American government. Just nuke them and be done with the blithering idiots who thinks “1984” was a guide book to governing and not a warning to not do these things.
If anywone say USA was evil agains Indian, just look on Australia – they’ve stolens native lands with force in time, when modern capitalism already made private property more secured by law. Every step against private property is more and more nazi and dissgusting. Australia is just a big mine. Just detonate nukes on international waters nearby cities, and it will eliminate over 90% of potential terrorist who wants to be potential terrorists for their country.
Racist Americunt, You don’t ever talk s♥♥t about our country dickhead!
Why? You can talk s♥♥t about their country. It’s the freedom of speech that guarantees that. What’s the law prohibiting people from s♥♥t-talking your country?
LMAO a guy from the coward-punch culture that believes “nothing is sacred” and calls each other ‘cunts’ is getting offended from a mild as s♥♥t Uncle Sam ribbing?
Welp, I’m glad I don’t live in Australia, good grief-_-
Sure, bro, I’ll give you access to all my communications so you can monitor me to check I’m not breaking any laws. Now, you just have to do exactly the same for exactly the same reason, my dear politician, you will surely have no problem at all, right?