The Laws of Mathematics are commendable

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BLKNSLVR · 2025-11 · Reference

Prime Minister (at the time) Malcolm Turnbull announcing it: [LINK] The above is just the announcement and doesn't include answering media questions wherein we would have heard dear Malcolm's famous quote: “Well the laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia" Very quiet audio of the last half of the above quote: [VIDEO] Political understanding of mathematics and encryption has not progressed in the intervening 9 years, much the same as the thirty years prior. Regulating internet security is forming a similarly unfortunate trajectory.

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BLKNSLVR · 2024-01 · Reference

A recent Australian Prime Minister did claim legislative power to alter mathematics. Poor quality sound, but: [VIDEO]

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leventonportera · 2023-10 · Joke / meme

The people making and passing these laws are 70-100 years old and not only have no idea what encryption or p2p is - they start deleting their gmail emails in their browser when their laptop pops up an out of space message. My favorite goto in these discussions - the Australian PM saying that the laws of Australia override the laws of mathematics, when talking about encryption. You heard that right an old bald guy who doesn't know how to use the second mouse button because mice don't have buttons - they have ears and a tail - is legislating to break AES256. You just have to pass a law to break it you see, and then the math law will have to obey the overriding Australian law. [VIDEO] Here's the thing though - that's not what this is all about, and these old hags have a very well-versed body of people behind them pushing the agenda. The reason the old hags sound like clowns, is because they are puppets with clown makeup. The goal here, is exactly what you said. Prohibition of encryption, because the people in power want more till they're kings, and they want to see everything you do so they can stay kings. In reality, none of this is meant to be enforced. It is however meant to pile up bogus charges and remove you from the public eye where you can make noise against them, once they decide to remove you for any other reason they want.

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