Albanese defeated on censorship bill

Sky News reports:

Sky News has revealed the Albanese government will dump its misinformation and disinformation bill in response to overwhelming opposition in the Senate.

Political Editor Andrew Clennell broke the news on Sunday Agenda after it had become clear the Coalition, Greens and crossbench all opposed the legislation.

The proposed laws, which threatened online platforms with fines of up to 5 per cent of their annual revenue for failing to curb misinformation, had sparked fierce opposition.

Governments view misinformation as being things they disagree with.

Left governments always seem keen to ban things they deem as misinformation, but they would not like it if right governments did the same. Imagine if governments forced social media companies to ban any posts that asserted communism was beneficial, on the basis that it is clearly factually incorrect and hence misinformation.

The antidote to bad or misleading speech is more speech, not less speech.

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