So, I've had some time to start digging into this properly. Unfortunately, this has been going on longer than I realized — after a couple of abortive attempts in 2020 and 2021, this stuff started getting rammed through as soon as the new government took office, and some ugly things have already passed. Stuff is weird, too — six week long public comment periods on incredibly dense legislation timed over summer vacation when literally the entire country is on holiday and long and dense pro-surveillance comments from a men's sexual health association?
The weirdest part to me, though, is the fact that almost no news organization considered completely upending the landscape of citizen privacy and police authority newsworthy — a few pieces in Hessari, but that's it. Combined with outlawing political strikes by unions — brought in by the same government at the same time — this is a massive authoritarian power grab.
Eleanor Saitta
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