Friday, September 03, 2021
Meanwhile in Prison Australia
And the government of South Australia, one of the country’s six states, developed and is now testing an app as Orwellian as any in the free world to enforce its quarantine rules. People in South Australia will be forced to download an app that combines facial recognition and geolocation.
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An app like this is really easy to defeat. It depends on 99.9%+ voluntary compliance. Put your phone in Airplane mode, or power off. Then, you don't get any notifications.
ReplyDeleteTurn the phone on when you're back at home. Respond if you get a notification. Leave your phone off 20+ hours a day. If more than a few percent of people do this, there won't be enough time in a day for the all the cops to visit every non-compliant person. That's the only thing the cops will do, all day, every day.
If the cops visit you, Leave them waiting at the front door for 5 minutes while your phone restarts, and respond to the app notification. "Oh, my battery ran out and I forgot to turn the phone back on. But everything is good now. Thanks for visiting!"
If you want to get a little more mileage, everybody should turn the phone on at a selected time, say 6:00 AM and 9:00 PM. There's a reasonable chance the Gov't server can't handle the load and it crashes, causing off-hours support to fix it.
If by chance the cops do visit you, be a little more discreet in your non-compliance.
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does that mean they will finally get cell service in the outback?
ReplyDeleteAll Australian states use a COVID tracing app already, so this is really nothing new. In Queensland it is called Check in QLD https://www.covid19.qld.gov.au/check-in-qld, and is used when going to public places identified by the state government. The country is not locked down as a whole, only specific local government areas, as determined by the individual states. Australia is as large as the US, so we don't take what is going on in Portland as what is going on in all of the US. When I was recently there, north Queensland was a hell of a lot more free than many places in the US, no masks, no restrictions, and check in when at the grocery and restaurants, that was it. Melbourne is the Austin of Oz, by the way, so fuck them.
ReplyDeleteGoing to be a lot of phones "lost". Screw 'em pull the battery. People are so trained to have the damn things on them 24/7.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened with the nationwide trucker strike? Anyone?
ReplyDeleteIdiots gave up their guns. They're fucked
ReplyDeleteWhat difference does that make. We have guns and have been diapered, our businessea closed, our children abused by diapers, schools closed, all for a cold that is 99.8% survivable for all, an election stolen by fraud and I aint heard a shot fired yet. Oh, but we'll show'em real soon. They tey one morw thing and by God......
DeleteDon't believe all that you read.
DeleteAussies never had the protections equivalent to the US 2nd Amendment, and using a firearm of any sort for self-defence was problematic.
Having said that, I, for one, own more, and more powerful guns than I did before the Great Confiscation. There are many Aussies who can say the same.
How are they going to keep tabs on people that don't own a phone or is that another AUS.gov mandate?
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