@daedalus @MrAndrewD @stephengentle @airshipper The Australian Labor Party has always despised the internet. Since the 1990s, the absolute worst internet policies have always come from those assholes.

The coalition is *mostly* (with obvious exceptions) all “laissez fair let’s just step back and be Libertarians and keep the government out of it,” but the ALP has *always* seen the internet as a tool of social control and has never stopped doing the most mind-alteringly stupid things with it.

It’s a fucking disease. Globally unique, these assholes are literally the worst in the world at this stuff.

In summary, the trial is a farce. It's testing a few things that might be sort of interesting, but not testing a lot of the things that will actually matter.

And they don't appear to understand some of the important issues around privacy and security, but they mistakenly believe they do.

There is a pre-determined outcome and they are trying to find a way to write something that looks like it justifies that outcome, provided you turn your head sideways, squint and don't think about anything very much.