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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:42:03 +0100
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On Sun, 17 Feb 2025, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:35:31 -0300, Shadow wrote:
>>> On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:42:41 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>>> Is it true what I read in the newspaper from my little corner of the
>>>> world, that australia is turning into a surveillance state?
>>>>
>>>> Sweden is also turning into a surveillance state as well, so maybe this
>>>> is a new global trend that caught on after corona?
>>>
>>>       You're at least 20 years behind. They've been surveillance
>>> states for ages...
>>>       []'s
>>
>> Australia or Sweden. About 35 years ago I was more or less living off the
>> grid and got talking to a man at the laundromat who was in the same
>> situation. I'd been interested in Australia for a long time. It turned out
>> he had returned to the US after living there for several years. According
>> to him no matter how much freedom the US had lost Australia was much
>> worse.
>
> Any extra freedoms we do accidentally have get rectified as soon as
> the USA gives our government the nudge, such as with the laws
> allowing any encryption to be cirumvented. Evidently laws to
> achieve that already existed in the USA with what happened to
> Lavabit.
>
> Besides strict gun control in Aus (albeit fairly ineffective), I
> think a lot of the differences would vary between individual US
> states and Australian states/territories. Things like private use
> of fireworks is still allowed in the Northern Territory.

Fear not! I'm sure fireworks will be forbidden in all EU countries soon. 
Then there's no longer any point in celebrating new years in the EU. I 
imagine they will ban christmas next. ;)