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Apr 26Liked by Rebekah Barnett

I continue to interpret e-safety messages through the lens of ‘safe and effective’ saturation advertising over the last couple of years by governments, politicians and official agencies. It is now abundantly clear that these messages demonstrated misinformation and disinformation on a grand scale, and the level of hypocrisy of those same people attacking free speech is, well, breathtaking.

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Re “Even the Human Rights Commission, which completely dropped the ball during Covid…”

How interesting to discover that someone associated with the World Economic Forum was the Australian Human Rights Commissioner during the key years of ‘Covid’ - Edward Santow who was Commissioner from 2016 to 2021.

According to his bio, Edward Santow was recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2017.

Santow is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Human Rights and the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

His areas of expertise include human rights, public law and discrimination law. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and serves on a number of boards and committees.

How many others associated with the World Economic Forum have infiltrated our institutions and parliaments?

Reference

https://humanrights.gov.au/about/commissioners/human-rights-commissioner-mr-edward-santow

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Apr 26Liked by Rebekah Barnett

Yet child pornograhy and trafficking is still available

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Beautifully written analysis Rebekah. I had no idea the misinformation bill had been shelved. But as the saying goes, never waste a crisis. Love the “we’re not safe till we’re all safe”. Lord where will all this end. Every day brings a new crisis/issue to frighten us into submission. Thankfully we have voices like yours to balance the narrative.

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This e Safety lady churns out many reasons delivered in her American accent for her ideas on e Safety but fails to consult or connect with ordinary people How or why is she holding down her questionable job Public need good & bad subjects to judge for themselves what they believe in or seek seek using their brains to decide to watch or support anything Australians are not subservient fools imbibing all information Might be okay in America but not hre

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Apr 28Liked by Rebekah Barnett

Thanks Rebekah for making this point and backing it up so well. I'm gonna spruik my own post where I make a similar point (but with less detail and rigour than Rebekah): https://www.amphobian.info/p/remaking-rights-australias-censors

It's frustrating how fair-minded, but deluded, neutrals (and Dutton is probably one of them), automatically assume this video is harmful even though hundreds of others are routinely shown to Australians. The only difference, is that *this* video is the one that the Commissioner picked.

That's why it's asinine for Dutton to claim that Twitter “see themselves [as] above the law”. The Online Safety Act essentially means that the Commissioner's word is the law. And politicians are lining up behind her even when she exceeds her statutory authority.

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With all this manufactured hoo ha over a manufactured event, I wonder what is going on behind the scenes? Could the stabbing psyops be distraction to cover something else?

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