this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2023
4 points (66.7% liked)

Australian Politics

1308 readers
1 users here now

A place to discuss Australia Politics.

Rules

This community is run under the rules of aussie.zone.

Recommended and Related Communities

Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:

Plus other communities for sport and major cities.

https://aussie.zone/communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
lodion@aussie.zone
daniel@aussie.zone
Whirlybird@aussie.zone
billytheid@aussie.zone
4
Want to protect free speech in Australia? (aus.social)
submitted 1 year ago by ajsadauskas@aus.social to c/australianpolitics@aussie.zone
16 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Want to protect free speech in Australia?

Either advocate for a constitutional Bill of Rights, or STFU.

#auspol #politics @australianpolitics #australia

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

My concern is that freedom of speech could be used as a basis for allowing hate speech and lies to be spread in the media and online. This already happens but enshrining this in the constitution would only embolden them making it more difficult to legislate away