Thread by @iMusing

Morrison is up. Claiming he follows “medical expert advice”, a lie. Segues across to Solomon Islands. Then gets down to the campaign stump speech, which is on imposing his government into peoples lives on social media.

ramping up the fear factor. Safe safe safe. Risk risk risk. He says social media trolling is “corrosive”, which is how Sam Maiden described him and his ICAC attack on #Insiders this morning.

lmao Morrison is telling everyone to be scared of bigots *on social media*. He weaponises women victims who are stalked online and experience “terrible abuse” for his government interference and control bill.

he has brought Michaelia Cash along!!! Was definitely listening to Maiden this morning.

trolls and bots and bigots who sledge and slur and destroy lives - no Morrison is not talking about his government although he may as well be. He is working himself up about something I and many others deal with every day. But we need white knight Morrison apparently.

oh ffs. Our families communities and society and “women who are so often the victim of these terrible events” are suffering existential threat from social fucking media which has been around for 15 years. He sounds wildly desperate. Do something about climate change, arsehole.

yes they will be looking for test cases, as Hewett predicted on #Insiders this morning. Morrison hands off to Cash, who he repeatedly refers to as “the Attorney” (in contrast to Bridget, and Brittany, and Linda).

they will introduce the legislation, says the actual Attorney General. She means a bill. You know, a thing the Morrison government can not do without *checks notes* her majesty’s loyal opposition on an Integrity Commission.

third party online trolls put potentially defamatory material online!! OMG. The sky is falling. But dw mums and dads will not be publishers. And the Morrison government is here with… 🥁🥁🥁a COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE. Heroes.

the Morrison government bill will have provisions for a process that 🥁🥁🥁asks “the online troll” (repeated multiple times) to take down the material. Earth shattering stuff here. Give them both an Oscar.

spoken like two people who do not and have never curated their own social media account.

Morrison has recruited an AFLW player, a woman, to be the prop for his campaign stump speech today. She says women are trolled online.

questions. Morrison says his government will make social media companies to name people who use their account for online abuse. He wants them to “use their algorithm to drive safety”.

Morrison expects “strong support in the parliament for this”. Ah, the point: wedge politics. Why not just pass it, mate? Having a majority in the House is what being in government means.

he says as a father he is concerned about the safety of women and girls. The bloke whose wife advised him that rape is bad.
They have thought carefully through these issues, says Morrison, in a stump speech about an untabled and presumably undrafted bill.

this laughable condescending paternalism. He is “concerned” - drink - “to make the online world safe”. As a parent, he says again, that “little phone or ipad that they are looking at in their room at night” omg this is dross “what can come back at them really disturbs” him.

you can’t hide on social media to abuse people, finger wags Scott. That’s not okay in Australia, he says.

It’s okay for those in government, lads.

asked about a federal integrity commission, he bangs on about Labor for a bit and says he is not interested in who peoples boyfriend are. Nor are we, Scott. The problem is corruption.

ABC radio and TV both cut away for the 11am news.