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Despite widespread opposition from the Australian public, Labor’s "Misinformation and Disinformation" Bill has passed the House of Representatives by 78 votes to 57.

Welcome to the Trump 2.0 'Apocalypse'. I mean ‘apocalypse’ in the biblical sense: as an ‘unveiling’, a look behind the curtain as to what’s really going on. And in this case, what a Trump 2.0 victory tells us about America.

"I prefer a Trump team to a Harris team in the same way I’d rather spend a month on the beach in Maui than a month trapped underground in a collapsed mine. It’s not close."

The effort to blast away the ability of the Internet to have a verified history fits neatly into the stakeholder model of information distribution that has clearly been prioritised on a global level.

A horrific terror attack occurred in late July in Southport, England, where three children were stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class. But any talk of this being an Islamic terror attack was quickly squashed by police, the elites, and the mainstream media.

Since 2018, Tommy Robinson’s opponents – Muslim, Marxist, and lightweight Tories – have exploited the “that’s not journalism” decree. Smeared as a “far-right, anti-Muslim agitator,” Robinson’s latest incarceration relates to his documentary film "Silenced".

Labor’s immigration minister Tony Burke has pulled the plug on Candace Owens’ November speaking tour of Australia, two months after opening a door for 3,000 unvetted pro-Hamas Gazans.

The UK-based Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) is again facing serious legal action after revelations one of the group’s goals is to destroy X.

Hobart City Council refused Councillor Louise Elliot the ability to book a venue for a women’s rights event and acted in a very unprofessional manner throughout the process.

A Reformed Baptist pastor from Bristol is Britain’s latest “outlaw”. Police arrested Dia Moodley, a street preacher, for blaspheming Islam, and affirming binary biological reality.

It occurs to me that both the language of cancel culture and specific, high-profile instances of it have quickly faded from public debate. By contrast, talk about “misinformation” and “disinformation” is everywhere.

The new laws would lower the legal threshold for prosecuting people for vilification and would add gender identity, sex, sex characteristics, sexual orientation and disability to the list of protected attributes alongside race and religion, which are already protected.

At a recent World Economic Forum meeting, John Kerry made it quite clear that things like freedom of speech and the US First Amendment stand in the way of the global elites implementing their radical changes.

Alliance Defending Freedom launched an open letter condemning Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes’ illegal attacks on X. Requesting Brazil’s far-left government repeal its lockout of the social media company, the letter called for the restoration of “the free flow of information.”

First, those in charge of adjudicating what is and is not misinformation are sometimes wrong, resulting in the censorship of true information. Second, there are harms associated with the suppression of true information.

Most of us know there is a draft bill before the Parliament with a verbose title: Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill. Its name alone should tell us something smells. The answer to bad speech is MORE speech, not less.

From our initial analysis, we have significant concerns. While the Misinformation Bill is an improvement on the previous iteration, and provides some protections for religious speech, it still puts the power of censorship in the hands of unaccountable private corporations.

Seattle street preacher Matthew Meinecke was forcibly removed by police at a pro-abortion protest and a PRIDEFest rally in 2022. Attendees abused and physically assaulted Meinecke. Instead of arresting Antifa and the LGBTQ+ self-identifiers involved, Seattle police detained the pastor.

Family First is officially back. After being voluntarily deregistered as a political party in 2017, the party that began life in March 2004 has re-entered politics in 2024. The Australian Electoral Commission approved Family First’s application on 20 September.

As with bits of most government legislation, the Misinformation Bill is worded in such a way as to sound quite innocuous and safe – even helpful and necessary. But that is so often not the case, and the opposite outcome is what we must fear.