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BY\u00a0TONY THOMAS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Murdoch\u2019s cheeky\u00a0Daily Telegraph<\/em>\u00a0mocked up a picture of Conroy in Stalin\u2019s uniform. Outraged progressives demanded an apology. The\u00a0Tele<\/em>apologised, but to Stalin not Conroy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 we would just like to say: We\u2019re sorry, Joseph.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Yes, it is true that Stalin was a despicable and evil tyrant who was responsible for the death of many millions. However, at least he was upfront in his efforts to control the media instead of pretending he supported free speech and then suggesting that cheeky, satirical or provocative newspaper coverage might be against the law. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also note that, despite his well-documented crimes against humanity, Stalin at least managed to hold a government together for more than three years. Nonetheless, we pay tribute to our new Commissar Conroy and stand ready to write and publish whatever he instructs us to.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conroy\u2019s Bill to save Australia from the media<\/a> was based on the flimsy pretext that in England, Murdoch\u2019s News of the World<\/em> journos had been hacking phones, not just of royalty but even the families of murder victims. (Some of Britain\u2019s non-Murdoch press had also been into hacking). Murdoch shut down News of the World<\/em> in response. Nobody claimed anything like the phone hacking had occurred in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, it was a chance for Gillard. Pushed by the Greens, she gave Judge Ray Finkelstein and a stray journo called Matthew Ricketson the job of drafting improved media regulation<\/a>. They came up with a PIMA or \u201cPublic Interest Media Advocate\u201d to oversee self-regulation. Under the Bill, if Mr or Ms PIMA felt self-regulation wasn\u2019t strict enough, he\/she\/it would cause the offending newspaper, in practical terms,<\/a> to be delicensed.[1]<\/a> Newspapers would be obliged to publish mandatory statements of error and, should editors demure, contempt-of-court penalties would apply \u2014 in other words, they could be locked up and kept behind bars indefinitely. This modest proposal ended in parliamentary tears for Conroy, Gillard (hello, Kevin Rudd 2.0)[2]<\/a> and the Labor government itself, downed by Tony Abbott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politicians\u2019 memories are short and down the turnpike now comes Prime Minister Albanese\u2019s bill, via Communications Minister Michelle Rowland, to censor online \u201cmisinformation\u201d. The pretext this time is that fake and malicious information on social media is wrecking our minds and unravelling our hitherto resilient society.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rigmarole seems templated on Gillard\u2019s lamentable model. Labor will give an \u201cindependent\u201d regulator power to oversee voluntary censorship codes by the tech giants like Meta, Google and Twitter. If they. are seen to falter, the regulator \u2014 namely the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) run by Nerida O\u2019Loughlin on $610,000 per year<\/a> (p88) \u2014 imposes its own standards. And she enforces it with fines literally up to billions of dollars per day ($6.88 million or 5 per cent of global turnover, whichever is biggest<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can bet the tech giants will rush to self-censor any posts that might remotely annoy Nerida or the government. So goodbye to online \u201cmisinformation\u201d like \u2018renewables are expensive and unreliable\u2019, or \u2018compulsory Covid vaccines are somewhat unproven and dangerous\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you think the bill itself defines the sort of \u201cmisinformation\u201d  that causes social \u201charms\u201d, forget it. The definitions are broad as the earth and sky. Sure, actionable \u201cmisinformation\u201d has to be \u201creasonably likely [to] cause or contribute to serious harm\u201d but the \u201cserious harm\u201d  test is just jelly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Labor\u2019s reworded bill arrives any month now. The  Coalition hasn\u2019t gained traction against it: after all, Scott Morrison\u2019s team created the plan in the first place. ScoMo\u2019s ethos, you might recall, was \u201cfreedom of speech doesn\u2019t create one job.\u201d[3]<\/a> When Albanese kicked out the LNP in 2022, he merely dusted off and hardened the LNP\u2019s handiwork. You might think Labor\u2019s penalties are pretty draconian (Draco would execute an Athenian for stealing a cabbage). But for the leftist mobs, Minister Rowland\u2019s onslaught against social media freedom doesn\u2019t go nearly far enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The submission by the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering<\/a> (ATSE) on August 6 takes the cake. I\u2019m serious, ATSE applauds the draft and wants Labor to extend censorship to cover not just online screeds but all \u201ctraditional\u201d media \u2014 newspapers, radio, TV, Quadrant<\/em> and even private messaging. Why? Because \u201cAn ongoing flood of misinformation and disinformation through online platforms risks damage to Australian democracy, institutions and society.\u201d That\u2019s why. So we get<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommendation 5:<\/em><\/strong> Expand ACMA powers to enable enforceable industry standards on traditional media sources, including print news media.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the Murdoch press obviously in mind, ATSE continues (emphasis added),<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some Australian news providers have been shown to be havens for science denialism and science misinformation (Lowe, 2018), while other media outlets can unintentionally amplify misinformation in well- meaning attempts to debunk it. Furthermore, it is much harder for digital platforms to police information coming from traditional media sources, as these sources may produce a mix of misinformation and factual information. Given this oversized role of traditional media in spreading misinformation, any attempt to fight misinformation that does not address the role of traditional media will be insufficient.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ATSE\u2019s favorable citation of \u201cLowe 2018\u201d is the giveaway. Ian Lowe AO was Australian Conservation Foundation president 2004-14, and his cited piece \u201cClimate of Denial\u201d is up on ATSE\u2019s own website.<\/a>Here he spells it all out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are now seeing a determined campaign of misinformation by the Murdoch press. At one level, it consists of putting forward amateur contrary views as if they hold equal weight with the [climate] science. The Australian featured on its front page a sun-tanned Bondi surfer who said he had not noticed any rise in sea level, as if this anecdote cancelled out decades of analysis of about 10,000 tide gauges around the world. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With respect, Ian, the Fort Denison tide gauge in Sydney Harbour has shown a puny 110mm of sea rise per century \u2014 that\u2019s two-thirds the length of my iphone.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At another level, it is deliberate misrepresentation \u2026 There is now no real possibility of communicating climate science through our commercial media \u2026 The good news is the community overall has clearly moved on and the denialists in power are increasingly out of touch with reality.<\/em> [His piece refers to the Coalition era].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t imagine ATSE is some mickey-mouse show gone rogue. Its president from 2013-15 was the urbane Alan Finkel, who became Australia\u2019s Chief Scientist a few years later, as well as a Fellow of the Academy of Science.. ATSE is currently headed by Dr Katherine Woodthorpe<\/a> AO.[4]<\/a> Her ATSE biog includes that she\u2019s a past director of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and Vast Solar, which is now installing<\/a> the $200 million Port Augusta Solar Thermal Project<\/a> with the help of $65 million federal funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ATSE has another 900 fellows, billed as our brightest boffins. Here\u2019s how ATSE imagines itself<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[A] Learned Academy of independent, non-political experts helping Australians understand and use technology to solve complex problems. Bringing together Australia\u2019s leading thinkers in applied science, technology and engineering, ATSE provides impartial, practical and evidence-based advice on how to achieve sustainable solutions and advance prosperity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ATSE wants WhatsApp to deliver \u201cfunctionality nudges\u201d (an Orwellian term reminiscent of a former NSW Premier\u2019s Department\u2019s \u201cNudge Unit\u201d)<\/a> to curb any \u201cmisinformation\u201d on it. ATSE not only wants dissemination of \u201cmisinformation\u201d labelled and limited across the board, it also wants (Recommendation 4) the censorship reach to extend to those private messaging services, subject to concerns about privacy and \u201cweakening of encryption\u201d. ATSE\u2019s submission agrees piously that Australians\u2019 trust in government is already low and falling, \u201cso it is essential that legislation designed to tackle misinformation does not undermine what trust remains. This is reinforced by the fact that Australians are particularly concerned about misinformation from the government and politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ATSE submission goes on to support indoctrination of school students based on the playbook of climate psychologists John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky. They and ATSE prescribe \u201cinoculation\u201d of kids with supposedly truthful climate alarmism to condition kids\u2019 brains against any reference to harmless warming and net zero impossibilities they might later encounter. Cook, whose research team indulged in some truly bizarre behaviour<\/a>, was lead author for the 2013 paper falsely<\/a>claiming a 97 per cent scientific consensus<\/a> for the orthodox warming hypothesis).[5]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ATSE\u2019s big program for schools<\/a> was established  by future chief scientist Finkel (above<\/strong><\/em>) himself. This program uses global warming alarmism as a bait to excite Year 5-10 kids about science. Or in ATSE\u2019s words, it is \u201ctapping into the high level of concern that most students have about global warming, climate change and sustainability.\u201d This is circular as the ATSE alarmists helped stir up kids\u2019 climate neuroses in the first place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ATSE program is now running in close to 1000 schools in Australasia and Asia, with 100,000 kids and 1500 teachers involved annually, with topics such as \u201cHow to save our world?\u201d.<\/a> While ATSE-sourced science lessons for the kids is lively and educationally impressive, its text material features hoary and discredited memes like anxious polar bears on ice floes<\/a> (their numbers in fact have tripled in the past 50 years of mild global warming<\/a>. Moreover, the material bangs on about global warming melting the Arctic sea ice whereas the sea ice has stabilised since 2007 and last month was at a 21-year high<\/a>). Most disgusting of all, the course thrusts at kids<\/a> a misinformation video about Tuvalu drowning from rising seas<\/a>, and tells kids to write a case study on it.  In the video villagers \u201calready live with their feet in the water\u201d and mourn, \u201cThis land will be \u2014 you know \u2014 nothing.\u201d Fact Check against misinformation: even RMIT-ABC Fact Check ruled from scientific measurement studies that Tuvalu\u2019s land area is expanding<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It gets worse for the reputation of science. The 2022 joint ATSE\/Science Academy submission to DIGI<\/a>mirrors the 2023 ATSE job. DIGI is Meta (Facebook), Twitter, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and TikTok. The DIGI players are, of course, the linchpin of the new Misinformation Bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two academies urged DIGI to censor and harass any Australians who circulated what they insultingly labelled \u201cclimate denialism misinformation\u201d.<\/a> They made no bones about urging the tech giants\u2019 power to be wielded against Murdoch\u2019s \u201cSky News Australia and its media personalities\u201d. And the regime shouldn\u2019t stop at online censorship. They urge censoring \u201cmisinformation\u201d in the traditional media too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommendation 2: Include misinformation from professional news content within the scope of the Code.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A COP26 paper,<\/a> Deny, Deceive, Delay<\/em>, which the Academies\u2019 submission also cited with approval referred to \u201cpolitical right-wing \u2026 top influencers\u201d as part of a conspiratorial \u201cintellectual dark web\u201d. Its alleged members included best-selling psychologist Dr Jordan B. Peterson and humourist Scott Adams and his Dilbert<\/em> cartoons. The paper, incidentally, was particularly aggrieved that Sky News\u2019 Rita Panahi had called Prince (now King) Charles a climate hypocrite and idiot. Would that be misinformation or treason?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another paper cited and approved by the two academies was another far-left conspiracy rant \u201cThe Toxic Ten \u2014 <\/strong>How ten fringe publishers fuel 69% of digital climate change denial<\/a>.\u201d To smear sceptics by association, the list includes \u201cRussian state media\u201d. Big Tech blocking these key right-of-centre outlets with their 186 million followers would be a huge win for the net-zero enforcers. Not all of the 600 science fellows viewed the submission as a credit to their Academy. Garth Paltridge, a fellow for 30-plus years, is a retired atmospheric physicist.[6]<\/a> He told us at the time,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bottom line is that research on climate change is indeed still highly controversial \u2013 both in the prediction of the extent of the change and (even more so) in the prediction of the impact of the change on society. I just cannot understand how any science academy that is supposed to operate through rational debate can behave like this \u2013 that is, to use pure political brute force to prevent one side of the argument from putting its case.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can only assume that the Academy is subconsciously \u2018chasing the money\u2019 and is influenced by the vast funding available these days for the support of alarmist climate research. Certainly there is virtually no money to support scientists brave enough to put their heads above the parapet with a contrary view. That might be why the critical scientists seem largely to be retired.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quadrant<\/em> covered that joint submission under the felicitous headline, \u201cShut them up, argues the Academy of Science\u201d<\/a>. The two academies are now on a collision course with the Australian Human Rights Commission (HRC) which wants the misinformation bill defanged, not augmented.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Commission holds serious reservations about the current version of the Exposure Draft Bill\u2019s ability to strike the correct balance. Legislation that necessitates censorship to fight misinformation and disinformation must do so in a way that prevents harm without unduly silencing reasonable minds we disagree with. Unfortunately, this initial Exposure Draft Bill has not found that equilibrium.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The HRC is not my favourite institution.[7]<\/a> It lost me when then-president Gillian Triggs opined in Hobart in 2017, to a standing ovation of Greens supporters<\/a>, \u201cSadly you can say what you like around the kitchen table at home.\u201d But on this Misinformation BIll, HRC President Rosalind Croucher has monstered the censorship-lovers. Censorship is contrary to fundamental Australian values, she argues, and also contrary to UN human rights treaties signed by Australia. She warns that the Bill could \u201crestrict public debate, censor unpopular opinions and enforce ideological conformity in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truthful information can be labelled as \u2018fake news\u2019 and delegitimized, Croucher says. \u201cSimilarly, categories [in the Bill] such as \u2018harm to the health of Australians\u2019, \u2018harm to the Australian environment\u2019 and \u2018economic or financial harm to Australians, the Australian economy or a sector of the Australian economy\u2019 are each categories about which reasonable people may legitimately have different perspectives and views.\u201d  She complains about the Bill\u2019s free pass to any government information, true or false, \u201cgiven the enhanced legitimacy and authority that many people attach to information received from official government sources.\u201d Arguing in surprising parallel with the Institute of Public Affairs, HRC is alarmed that government has immunity while it can get its critics censored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for other submissions, the draft bill is even making the ABC nervous, as its iView and Listen apps could get caught in ACMA\u2019s censorship wringer. The ABC also complains the Bill lacks provision for ABC journos to protect their sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journos\u2019 leftist union, MEAA, like the ABC, loves the censorship Bill in principle for targeting \u201cmisinformation\u201d that contradicts their woke opinions. MEAA\u2019s submission<\/a> complains that authorities during the Referendum failed to suppress \u201cdeliberate campaigns distributing incorrect, misleading, and damaging information\u201d<\/em> <\/u><\/em>by No advocates. The MEAA \u2014 trust them, they\u2019re journalists<\/p>\n\n\n\n

believes fact checkers <\/em>[like their RMIT\/ABC ideological mate Russ Skelton<\/a>] should be a mandatory requirement of any code or standard developed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, the MEAA feared the enhanced ACMA blowtorch could burn its many freelance journos and small online publishers. These small-timers, unlike mainstream publishers of \u201cprofessional news content\u201d, are likely targets for the official censorship. MEAA also feared ACMA could misuse its power to censor \u201charmful\u201d accounts involving \u201cdisruption of public order or society\u201d such as street protests. In MEAA\u2019s words, \u201cthere is a long history of important social movements being considered \u2018disruptive\u2019 by governments and powerful interests.\u201d I\u2019m sure the union likes rioters for Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion and  the \u201cGas the Jews\u201d mob, but not the peaceful anti-lockdown protestors which, in Victoria\u2019s case, involved Dan Andrew\u2019s troopers firing rubber bullets into them as they fled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MEAA solution goes like this: instead of exemptions for \u201cprofessional news content\u201d, make it exemptions for all those subscribing to the MEAA\u2019s Code of Ethics. These (I presume) union members can be relied on for \u201ca commitment to the highest standards of honesty, fairness, independence, and respect for the rights of others.\u201d The MEAA\u2019s other faux solution to \u201cmisinformation\u201d online, echoing ATSE, is for kids to get \u201cmedia literacy\u201d training, under the watchful eye of the leftist fact-checkers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Even through its leftist goggles the MEAA can see that the censorship regime looks a bit dicey given its green-light exemption for all propaganda from all levels of government:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is simply unreasonable that the view of governments be<\/em> protected from the reach of this Bill\u2019s definition of \u201cmisinformation\u201d and paves the way for government to politicise valid criticisms of it[self] while engaging in misinformation of its own.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other leftist submissions on the Bill are nervous that giving such powers to their friendly government might backfire when wielded by a cabinet of conservatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d better close now, I\u2019d hate to give you any misinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tony Thomas\u2019s latest book from Connor Court is <\/strong><\/em>Anthem of the Unwoke \u2013 Yep! The other lot\u2019s gone bonkers<\/strong>. $34.95 from Connor Court <\/strong><\/em>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/a> \u201cDeath by a thousand consent forms\u201d, as one analyst put it at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> Gillard in desperation negotiated to replace PIMA with a three-person panel, appointed by a 12-person committee, six of whom would have been appointed by the Council of the Order of Australia, three appointed by the journalists\u2019 union and three appointed by the Australian Press Council. The bill collapsed anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> Actually, his phrase was<\/a>, \u201d As a senior figure in this government \u2026 I know this issue [free speech] doesn\u2019t create one job, doesn\u2019t open one business, doesn\u2019t give anyone one extra hour. It doesn\u2019t make housing more affordable or energy more affordable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> Dr Woodthorpe previously chaired the National Climate Science Advisory Committee and currently chairs the Government\u2019s \u201cVision 2040\u201d committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> Another of the Cook-Lewandowsky papers on \u201cdeniers\u201d (Recursive Fury<\/em>) in 2014 was retracted by its hosting journal, Frontiers<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> Paltridge from 1990 to 2002 was professor and director of the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Oceans Studies at the University of Tasmania<\/a> and at the same time, from 1991\u20132002, chief executive officer of the Antarctic Co-operative Research Centre at the University of Tasmania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> From October 14  to January 28 the HRC  website had nothing to say about the country\u2019s wave of \u201cGas the Jews\/Where\u2019s the Jews?\u201d anti-Semitism, though it had earlier spent four years hounding and legally impoverishing some blameless QUT students who\u2019d objected to being kicked out of an Aboriginal-only computer room. On January 29 it posted this sludge,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Commission is extremely concerned about reports of rising incidents of anti-Semitism, neo-Nazi rallies, Islamophobia, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism. We will continue to support and engage with all communities in our society for an Australia free from racial hatred, discrimination, and unlawful harassment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 19 it announced <\/p>\n\n\n\n

further anti-racism work to support communities in Australia affected by the war in Gaza and the Middle East, supported by a $2 million grant from the Commonwealth.  The grant responds to an increase in racism targeting Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, and Jewish communities within Australia since the outbreak of the conflict.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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