#aus pol

This is deeply worrying and it seems this is at the OS level because some are saying alot of apps and websites are being blocked as of a few days ago.

But I do want to point out this is only limited to some users and developers who opt in to the beta test but will likely be fully rolled out to the UK aswell as Australia, Brazil, and Singapore and some US states.

Everyone needs to call Apple out on this and force them to backtrack because they are overcomplying.

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Because as a lot of youse clearly don't know. Mastercard and Visa are the companies that Australia standard default bank DEBIT cards are issued under. We don't get a choice, the bank automatically processes our cards under Mastercard or Visa.

So it's either using Mastercard/Visa or cash. That's our two options.

(At least for all the big 4 banks, if you have a smaller bank that doesn't do this wonderful, also if you suggest American Express I'm going to lose it because as the name suggests that's just another USAmerican company)

Hot take : this wasn't "An Australian group trying to dictate American companies"

This was an Australian group trying to censor Australian's and went for the top, and unfortunately because the United States of American has control over a lot of the western world, you guys finally experienced some knock affects of that for once.

It's so elementary but so many people don't realise that, like... the NDIS or social security or whatever it's called in your country doesn't exist to improve the lives of disabled people.

If the government wanted to give out "handouts", they would just do it. There would be no NDIS, no centrelink. The main, stated goal of these offices is to make sure as few people as possible are given government money.

That's why MyGov is so user-unfriendly. That's why centrelink makes you go through so many steps with so many arbitrary deadlines. They're padding it out for as long as possible in the hope that you die first.

The ironic part? If the government just gave out "handouts" to everyone who needed them, they would save money. Because their budget to keep the Disabled People Killing Machine running gets higher every year.

When you hear about the NDIS costing millions of dollars, the reporters saying it are using some tricky bullshit. They intentionally frame it as if the money given to people to live is what's costing so much. They conveniently don't mention the fact that, just like a business, the NDIS is expected to save money every year. So more and more money is spent on the systems designed to find excuses to kick people off it, enough that it offsets the amount actually saved.

Robodebt was only a "scandal" because of the public outcry. Robodebt was centrelink's greatest achievement at serving its purpose. That's why they're trying to do it all over again.

Obviously we don't have accessible infrastructure. Obviously we don't have the rights we need to survive. Obviously we're not given the tools to succeed. Disability is inherently oppositional to capitalism. For capital to grow, we must die.

Link to a petition in my pinned post. Sign if you are Australian

Also spread word abt it please and thank you :3

Fuck the OSA (Online safety amendment) and fuck the esafety commissioner and double fuck all this censorship bs we have to put up with every time some idiots decide they own what we say