Lorraine Harmer

We are in the midst of a five-alarm fire on free speech and privacy internationally. Politicians across the West are demanding new powers for their spy agencies to do what East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, did. Americans, Europeans, and anyone else online will have their privacy invaded, and personal information, including information about their health and sexual orientation, potentially shared with foreign spy agencies, if the Australian Senate passes the @AlboMP government's totalitarian bill. New investigative reporting by @MikeNayna, @NAffects, and @itshermargaret reveals that the Albanese government buried in its censorship legislation a radical change to the nation's Privacy Act, one that would open the door to unprecedented secret spying globally. It's coming at a time when governments in Europe, the UK, and Brazil are all demanding ever-more censorship of their enemies. Behind the war on free speech is a war on ordinary people seeking to defend core civilizational pillars, from borders to industry to the rights of women. The iconic 2006 film "The Lives of Others," about the Stasi, is about what happens when politicians decide their citizens are the enemy. That's what's happening today. It's fitting that the main character on that film poster should be Australia's Prime Minister @AlboMP, whose legislation would weaponize the nation's censorship agency, the "eSafety Commissioner," to spy on citizens and report them to their governments for thought-crime violations. Every free person in the West should be alarmed by this development and see @AlboMP and his apparatchiks for what they are: a clear and present danger to our freedoms and civilization itself. It's up to free people to spread the word about this five-alarm fire and resist with everything we've got.