Free Speech Chill-O-Rama From Australia

Wow. Just read about this story from Australia.

It seems as there are plans to completely outlaw anonymity on the intertooobies.

"A new law has come into effect in South Australia. The law, according to the Adelaide Advertiser, "requires internet bloggers, and anyone making a comment on next month's state election, to publish their real name and postcode when commenting on the poll." It effectively prevents anonymous comments on politics on the Internet."

The law "also requires media organisations to keep a person's real name and full address on file for six months, and they face fines of $5000 if they do not hand over this information to the Electoral Commissioner."

This seems pretty heavy handed to me. I haven't read much about this law anywhere else-could it be that they are just ramming it through, without debate? Or could it be that Australians are behaving like Canadian sheeples, just blindly nodding and smiling as their rights are stripped away in incremental, almost imperceptible little Trudeaupian steps?

I wouldn't be surprised if the Canadian Human Rights Monstrosity Bureaucracy got inspired by Oz.

Here's a warning though from Down Under. Read it well:

"Intellectual coercion is a second cousin of physical coercion. Once you concede the principle that the government can censor what you say...well...you've conceded an awful lot."

AMEN to that. And that is why we all have to resist any governmental, and "well-intentioned" non-governmental attempts to censor our thoughts and our speech. For every action, there must be a more forceful reaction, until THEY are crushed.

So carry on, offend on, git yer hate on...