Commentary
In June, the Albanese Labor government released an exposure draft of a dystopian proposed legislation that will empower a government body, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), to police online “misinformation” and “disinformation.”
The “Mis/Dis Bill” is accompanied by a guidance note with little transparency and an invitation to make a submission by the first week of August.
A famous author once said of this kind of regulation, “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real, and one’s declared aims, one turns … to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”…