Comment on Australia's criminalisation of peaceful protest is a stain on our democracy

TheHolm@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• stepchook@mastodon.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  @TheHolm @MHLoppy
  You're protesting about this toot? That does not deserve a $20,000 fine and court silence order. Nobody was injured by the protests. Therefore they were peaceful.

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  • TheHolm@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Disrupting other people lives and businesses is not a peaceful protest on my book. Fines should be proportional damage they caused and $20K is top you can get, exact sum is up to court.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You don’t just get to redefine what peaceful means. Disrupting people without using violence is peaceful.

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    • zik@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If it’s peaceful it’s peaceful. When I check the dictionary under “peaceful” it doesn’t say anything about business.

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    • stepchook@mastodon.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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      You hit the nail on the head. The anti-protest law was passed to protect business, at the expense of human rights https://www.hrlc.org.au/news/new-western-australian-bill-threatens-protest-rights

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    • WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What else is a protest but a way to cause a disruption until politicians care enough to fix the issue you’re protesting for? If you’re not causing some kind of disruption it’s not really a protest cause people can just ignore you and nothing is gonna get done from it.

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• voracitude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Proof or gtfo.

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