Well, it's been a week or so and Commiefornia is STILL STUCK AT 95%?

That's 19 days since the election.

https://decisiondeskhq.com/results/2024/General/US-House/

Australia dumps plans for ‘disinformation’ fines

The opposition has slammed a bill that envisaged hefty penalties for social media platforms as an attempt to suppress free speech

The Australian government has scrapped plans to introduce fines for social media platforms that fail to stop the spread of “seriously harmful mis and disinformation” online. The ruling Labor Party acknowledged that its Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill stood no chance of garnering enough support in parliament.

In a statement on Sunday, Communications Minister Michelle Rowland wrote that “based on public statements and engagements with Senators, it is clear that there is no pathway to legislate this proposal through the Senate.” She accused the bill’s opponents of placing “partisanship above any attempt to navigate the public interest.” According to Sky News, the conservative Liberal-National coalition, as well as the Australian Greens, and a number of crossbench senators all refused to back the proposed legislation. The opposition criticized the bill as an attempt to suppress free speech.

Rowland urged those parties and lawmakers to support other initiatives put forward by the government with the professed aim of “strengthen[ing] democratic institutions and keep[ing] Australians safe online.” The official went on to claim that “80% of Australians want action” to address “seriously harmful mis and disinformation [that] poses a threat to safety, the integrity of elections, democracy and national security.”

The communications minister added that the torpedoed bill “would have ushered in an unprecedented level of transparency, holding big tech to account for their systems and processes to prevent and minimise the spread of harmful misinformation and disinformation online.” The legislation would have focused on such aspects in particular as bots, fake accounts, deep fakes, advertising, and monetization.

The bill envisaged fines of up to 5% of a social media platform's global revenue for failing to comply. Under it, companies would have been required by the Australian authorities to present codes of conduct, with the regulator laying down its own standards should a social media platform neglect to do so.

The Australian government has mounted a regulatory campaign of late to reign in foreign-based tech giants.

On Thursday, Rowland introduced an amendment to the Online Safety Act in parliament that would obligate social media platforms to take reasonable steps to ensure effective age-verification protections. If passed, the legislation would ban children under 16 from accessing social media, with fines of up to AU$50 million (US$32.5 million) for companies found in breach.

https://www.rt.com/news/608129-australia-scraps-social-media-disinformation-bill/

Iran announces new nuclear move

Tehran has announced it has launched new advanced centrifuges in response to a critical resolution from the IAEA

Iran has made good on its pledge to expand its nuclear program in response to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) passing a resolution critical of the country. According to an announcement on Sunday by the speaker of the nation’s parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Tehran has inaugurated new advanced centrifuges for nuclear enrichment.

The UN atomic watchdog passed the resolution at its board of governors meeting on Thursday. The motion denounced Iran’s lack of transparency on its nuclear activities. While China, Russia, and Burkina Faso voted against, it was passed with 19 votes in favor. There were 12 abstentions and Venezuela did not vote, according to AFP sources. In a joint statement ahead of time, the UK, France and Germany claimed Iran’s nuclear program posed a “threat” to international security. Washington also slammed its nuclear activities as “deeply troubling.”

Ghalibaf told parliament that the resolution reflects the West’s “politically unrealistic and destructive approach” toward Iran’s nuclear program. He accused countries like the US of using Iran’s nuclear activities as a pretext for their own “illegitimate actions” and said the motion they spearheaded jeopardized the IAEA’s credibility and independence.

“Their dishonesty and bad faith have disrupted the constructive atmosphere we were building for strengthened cooperation between Iran and the agency. These politically charged and nonconstructive decisions force countries to take measures outside the IAEA protocols to safeguard their national security,” Ghalibaf stated, before announcing that Tehran would deploy advanced centrifuge systems for uranium enrichment in response.

He urged IAEA member states to oppose the West’s influence on the agency and reiterated that international nuclear cooperation should be conducted in a nonpolitical framework.

Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA, Mohsen Naziri Asl, earlier called the IAEA resolution “politically motivated.”

The West has long claimed Iran’s uranium enrichment activities are a covert attempt to develop atomic weapons, despite Tehran’s insistence that its nuclear program is peaceful. The 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers put limits on the program in exchange for sanctions relief, but the deal collapsed after the US withdrew from it in 2018. Iran has since stepped up its enrichment capabilities, and according to IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, is now close to the threshold required for weaponization.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned Grossi during his visit to Tehran earlier this month that there would be a response if the IAEA board passed an anti-Iran resolution. According to Araghchi, Tehran is ready to renegotiate the 2015 agreement, but only if the West is willing to agree a new deal on mutually beneficial terms.

https://www.rt.com/news/608130-iran-iaea-response-enrichment/

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