The new surveillance bill in Australia is meant to bring in digital passports

If you are a regular user of this sub, you surely haven't missed that news about the surveillance bill in Australia that allows the police to take control of someone's social media account, edit the content, and arrest the account owner if wanted. Hundreds of Australians rushed in this sub to share the same news again and again. lol.

I doubt the police is going to turn into some kinds of geeks hacking random facebook accounts. That's not the purpose. It's silly to think it is. I doubt they're going to hack random citizens they wouldn't like for whatever reason, so they have an excuse to arrest them. It's possible, but that sounds silly too. Either someone breaks the law, and the police investigates and arrests the guy if they find incriminating evidence. Or someone doesn't break the law, and the police has no interest in arresting that person. There is already an "hate crime" law in Australia. The law is defined in very broad terms (on purpose?), and as far as I'm aware, it allows authorities to arrest anyone for their online activity if they want to. Since this law has been a thing, in reality, only a hand few people have been arrested for that reason. My point is, technically, they don't need such a surveillance bill to hack people's accounts, to have a valid reason to arrest someone.

This bill may be about introducing a few false flag events of hacked facebook accounts. The MSM will then play their propaganda, as always, saying social media accounts are unsafe to use, a digital passport or digital ID is necessary to log on, moving forward. The concept of digital passport has been talked about for several years already. This new bill is meant to make it a reality.

The Internet is global. A digital passport/ID would be a global thing too. It's just that they are testing it in Australia first.

The concept of a digital passport makes sense in a way, because we tend to spend more and more time online. In many cases today, we spend more time online than living in the real world, interacting with real people. It's the online equivalent of the passport we use to cross international borders. With a passport, they want to track where you've been, and for how long. THey want to achieve the same thing with a digital passport. Except the digital passport will allow them to know way more than what websites you visited. It will allow to build detailed profiles that tell about your political opinions, religious opinions, etc...