The effectiveness of these groups should be obvious from the referendum, if not the US election. Wealthy people are more than willing to throw shitloads around to spread misinformation and flood people’s feeds.

Adobe Haven’t these dickheads been charging Australians more for their products than anyone else for decades?

If you’re going to urge the US to target Australia it should be within the rights of every Australian to just torrent your shit if they want.

Trump’s strategy is to “flood the zone” (as Steve Bannon puts it) so that all the oxygen for reporting on anything is sucked up. This was also more or less Scott Morrisons strategy when he won, they hired a pair of dweebs from NZ whose job is basically to flood social media with bad memes so that it’s all you see. So it wouldn’t surprise me if what Dutton is doing is a similar strategy.

Well she has full confidence of the Chancellor that I’m sure has nothing to do with the contracts for mates or the free travel.

I’ve been enjoying the AFR articles on the VC. I got out just in time I think.

Why not both?

“deliberate” seems like a pretty high bar. Of course it doesn’t stop employer groups crying that literally stealing is being made illegal.