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[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
  1. Is this a ploy for Alex Antic to collect personally identifiable information?
  2. I’m not going to give my data to a Liberal politician (why are they called “Liberal” - the Labor party is more liberal; the “Liberal” party should change their name to “Conservative”)
  3. Why don’t we see what is proposed before opposing it?

a) Personally I don’t oppose the concept, but I don’t trust anyone to handle the data appropriately

b) I find the idea of locking everyone in to an Android/Apple duopoly offensive (myGovId is the perfect example of how not to implement this) — this may be the final nail that converts me to dumping my “Smart” devices and moving to a dumb phone.

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

Digital IDs were introduced in 2015 by the coalition.

This partition is 100% bs.

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

They're called liberal because they're economically liberal (low taxes, pro business), not socially liberal.

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

liberal doesnt mean left wing

[–] austin@aussie.zone -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

compared to conservative, yes, but no real leftist would call liberals anything better than centrists

[–] austin@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Yes at this point put political compasses on political websites so we know what is what