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I'm Canadian and I suspect our problem is that we're approaching this in earnest, not realizing that the Australian law was a shakedown and made no sense from an earnest perspective.

We were advised by Australia's top policy wonk, but maybe he was in earnest and didn't understand the game he was in.



I just don't understand how anyone with a shred of intelligence could even think of this law and not immediately realize it's a shakedown.

Your policymakers are either

- earnest and incredibly stupid

- malicious and only somewhat stupid

There's just no in-between here. A child that has done ten minutes of research on the issue could realize the problems with these bills.




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