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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wasn't doxing illegal now?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Basically nothing regarding digital abuse by corporations is illegal in Australia. Corporations can do whatever they want. There are basically zero privacy laws here. It's the wild west. We don't even have a legal right to free speech.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Silence, peasant!

You must be more compliant!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Apparently not, though the government did introduce a new bill earlier this month.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

And this bill is going to ban doxing, right? Right??

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm still gobsmacked.

It's like some people have never heard of the Streisand effect, and want to do some sort of experiment to prove that it's valid....