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On Thursday, the Australian parliament approved a measure that critics say will weaken encryption in favor of law enforcement and the demands of government.
The new law, which has been pushed for since at least 2017, requires that companies provide a way to get at encrypted communications and data via a warrant process. It also imposes fines of up to A$10 million for companies that do not comply and A$50,000 for individuals who do not comply. In short, the law thwarts (or at least tries to thwart) strong encryption.

Companies who receive one of these warrants have the option of either complying with the government or waiting for a court order. However, by default, the orders are secret, so companies would not be able to tell the public that they had received one.

Apple previously decried Australian efforts: "Encryption is simply math."

Posted by james4591
From what I know about Japan, the modern population has put what happened during WW2 behind them. "The past is in the past" philosophy. It was a bad time, but it's in the past. No need to dwell on it. No modern Japanese participated in the conflicts, so it's not their concern. The older generations still tell the stories, but they too have moved on and gotten on with their lives. The American print of Shonen Jump did an article on it about a decade or so ago.

Posted by DonJon
Well I disagree. I think countries should teach their own history, including and especially the darker parts of it. As far as I read, Japanese war crimes, like the rape of Nanking or unit 731's experiments and killings, are not really taught in Japanese schools like Germany teaches its own ww2 crimes extensively. To say, 'well I wasn't born,it's got nothing to do with me those were just my ancestors' is a way to weasel oneself out of the reality of history as the descendants of victims are still affected even today.

If nothing else, politically speaking, things like the Nanking Massacre denial is not doing any good for Sino-Japanese relations.

Posted by Kakashi
Ugh, that whole "past is the past" thing is such BS. They teach their children about all the bad things that happened to Japan in the WW2; but never acknowledge, let alone teach about anything bad they did in WW2. When I was teaching in JHS, the school trip was almost always to Kyoto and Nara, which meant a trip to the Atomic Dome in Hiroshima. I always had to grade papers about their trips and what they learnt about their "history". The biggest insults (even though I'm not American) were (and are still) chapters (in all five major textbooks) devoted to teaching English using this history. I would always ask my kids if they knew about anything famous like Pearl Harbour or the colonial rule of South Korea (not WW2, I know, but still relevant) and I swear that I only had one say yes in all those years. Whenever I would try to talk about the ANZAC tradition in Australia, someone would always try to shut me up in fear of getting in trouble themselves. The most amazing thing was having and adult friend tell me that they only learned of any of Japan's atrocities when a tour guide told them about in on a vacation in Australia and then it struck up a conversation where others admitted that they only learned of such things through the Internet or some other foreign medium. This stuff just isn't in the history books because the government has wanted to appear as the good guys for a very long time now.

As an Australian, I was taught about all the atrocities my settler colony (this is after the convicts) ancestors did to the Aborigines; how they tried to steal away their heritage, names and "outbreed" them and eventually steal children away from their families. I actually remember learning of rape from some historical movie I watched in Primary (Elementary) School involving the mistreatment of the Aborigines dating back to the convict colonies, which came as a more than a bit of a shock. The Stolen Generation history itself is a bit skewed in it's teaching, as it focuses purely on Aborigines. My mother (a white woman) was a part of the stolen generation who was put into foster care, as was her foster sibling (a woman I knew as my aunty). But, you can find out this information if you dig a bit.

Posted by CaptainJistuce
America is pretty hit-and-miss on our owning up to our mistakes.
History classes go out of their way to remind us of how poorly we treated the indians as the nation expanded across the continent, and actually OVER-compensate and paint the civil war as being entirely and 100% exclusively about slavery(it was definitely the issue everyone could agree on, but not at all the only one).
But on the other hand most americans have no idea that, just as an example, we forcibly relocated japanese-americans to concentration camps during WW2. I grant that WW2 is also around where our US history classes start running out of time and shift into fast-forward, but IT IS KIND OF IMPORTANT.

Posted by CaptainJistuce

But on the other hand most americans have no idea that, just as an example, we forcibly relocated japanese-americans to concentration camps during WW2. I grant that WW2 is also around where our US history classes start running out of time and shift into fast-forward, but IT IS KIND OF IMPORTANT.

Posted by Kakashi
Everyone was an asshole during the world wars or were just following the orders of another country. If anyone conveniently forgot history, they're still assholes. Racist assholes. Racism. It's everywhere. Still. I don't wanna talk about my experiences because it'll just make me rant like I have a 6-character nick in all lower-case...

Posted by "talbain"
As it turns out, the people who benefit the most from "the past is in the past" are always the dominant group. History is weaponized via forgetfulness, via traditionalist thought and nostalgia for an age that never existed.

You blaming those who are younger than you is very clearly a sign of your own traditionalist thinking, as if using a rotary phone has anything to do with being a functional member of society today.

Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6myUwP3wPfs

Japan was and is a deeply racist, deeply sexist nation, and a big part of that likely comes from their education system sugar-coating history for people. For some, "you can't know what you don't know" holds true, simply because it's very likely a history they were never made aware of. It's one of the most insulated nations and their own policies attempt to ensure that remains true into the foreseeable future.

I'd really prefer if they would start students in US high schools with Zinn's A People's History of the United States, but that's probably too much to ask.

One can safely assume the US government has no interest in empowering its people, given those currently running it.

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