Hate speech legislation being drafted by the federal government after the Bondi terror attack must focus solely on Islamic extremism and antisemitism, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says, despite calls for the protection of LGBTQ Australians in the reforms.
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“I want to be very clear, tackling hate speech is not a licence to go after free speech. There are clear issues that this legislation needs to address. It needs to be targeted to the threats that we face, and those threats are radical Islamic extremism and antisemitism. That’s what we want to see in this legislation,” Ley told a press conference in Sydney.
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Asked whether she would oppose legislation that included LGBTQ or disabled Australians, Ley said: “That’s an appropriate question for the time when we see it, but I really want to make my point very clear, that’s actually not what we would expect to see or need to see in any legislation that comes forward.”
Source: Algernon_Asimov
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Then why does she fully support the antisemitism commissioner’s recommendations? It specifically recommends limiting freedom of speech and more online surveillance and tracking. Unless she hasn’t read them..?
Yeah: “We want protection from hate speech, but not for people we actually hate! We only want protection for people we like.”
I mean, we know what the Coalition’s opinion is about sexual and gender minorities, but I don’t think it’s a good look for them to say the quiet parts out loud.
She’s more an more sounding like just an arm of Israel.
All these hate speech laws are BS and just a Trojan horse for government censorship lets be real.
How long is it until we see people arrested for criticising Israel or even at some point the Australian government?
I can’t believe people are such sheep in this country, they’ll happily let the government stamp out their remaining freedoms, whether its protest rights, free speech, etc, with the applause of the media.
I’m sorry, but quite frankly, everyone in a democratic society should be able to say anything they want no matter how much you disagree with it. Everyone should have the right to offend and be offended, its that simple. Why the fuck does anyone think its remotely a good idea for the government to dictate what people can and can’t say.
Also if you genuinely support these laws for whatever reason, you do realise these laws will be on the books in the long term future, and if a different government comes to power, these laws may very well be used against you next.
The only very specific exception should be directly advocating for death threats or the death of specific people and inciting direct immediate violence. (We’ve had these laws since the early 1900’s)
I don’t want ANY hate speech laws. We already had defamations, harassment, threatening, calls to violence on the books.
I hope the Redditors who voted ‘No’ to the Voice, arguing that we shouldn’t grant ‘special privilege’ to one racial group, recognize the inconsistency in now demanding a Royal Commission into antisemitism.
It is difficult to justify a refusal to give Indigenous Australians a formal voice after 200 years of systemic vilification and discrimination, while simultaneously insisting on a specific state probe for another group.
One must ask why ‘special attention’ is a dealbreaker in one instance but a necessity in the other.
I actually hope she keeps going at this point. Everything she’s said over the past few days makes it clear she only cares about one minority in Australia — and we know how the average Australian reacts to the idea of minorities having ‘too many rights.’
Makes me wonder if Albos “backflip” yesterday was for this reason. Let the Libs take the veil off and say what they really want.