No1@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
TBF, some of our tech laws are stupid, eg, the government can make an Aussie tech worker insert a backdoor in code, and they can be jailed if they talk about it.
But they’re not discriminatory. They are equally stupid for everyone.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Yeah to be honest, if I hear about a law in Australia that affects technology, my default position is that it’s probably a bad one. That’s a stance I’ve developed thanks to long experience of it mostly being the case that our tech laws are dumb.
A more recent example: the News Media Bargaining Code. Literally requiring Google to pay Murdoch’s news outlets for sending traffic to them. If there was any sensible financial transaction, it would be the other way around.
Or for something under the Labor Government, the social media minimum age laws, which were rammed through without time for real public consultation or debate in Parliament.