Given how crucial to exposing government misconduct FOI requests are in the UK, I imagine this is a path you very much don’t want to go down.

I first thought this was talking about the UK government, as I wouldn’t put it past them to try and push something like this through. I’m both sad and relieved it’s our Australian cousins going through it instead.

To be clear, this seems to be about Australia (?)

What is a Slimer?

Don’t forget transphobia. They seem to have suddenly decided that’s a good idea in the last 3 years.

Good. Now repeal the Online Safety Act.

You can tell they are really improving competition and efficiency by raising the C - suite salaries.

Yeah unfortunately one vote every 4 or 5 years is not enough granularity to weigh in on specific issues. Also, politicians lie about what they will do all the time.

Showing that a large amount of people are against an action, whether by petition or protest, is one of the tools we do have.

This particular piece of legislation has been in the works for two administrations of two different parties. We’re kind of sick of both of them so I think many people will likely vote for a 3rd party the next time around. Possibly the more progressive splinter group of our 'left" party.

Doesn’t stop us from continuing to push. Since they responded we got 300 000 more signatures.

Reminder that there is a petition for UK residents, now with 500 000 signatures: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

Well, I know what studio they are closing next.

Reading the attached article, this seems to be a directive, rather than a law. We don’t know what shape the law will take, or whether it will actually be implemented… No?

Please correct me if I’m wrong. Not too familiar with this stuff.

There’s still time to push back, I would guess.

I’m paying £20/m for a lossless family plan from Deezer… That’s how they get you 😭. Now I’d have to apologize to my family members if I took away their subscription. Used to be around £17 when I started a few years back.

I do not recommend getting a family plan.

…and microplastics in mine

Better than 100% at least, I guess.

Been there too. The advantage of writing the document though is that it means you can point people to it at least.

The next stage in personal growth is to help others grow more competent and learn to delegate. That means you can then focus on the stuff only you can do.

At least that’s what I’m learning.

Not any more 😭

You should probably also consider CalyxOS, which supports most Pixel phones and, for me at least, seems to work with banking apps using microG while removing all of the pre installed Google bloat and providing a firewall.

That said, I haven’t tried GrapheneOS. From what I hear you can lock it down even more and there are more features.

Is that you, Orel?

The company should be sued into the ground. This is horrendous