Letter to the Editor: Online harms proposals “preposterous”

Also "unconstitutional" and "presumptuous" It seems to be a law of human nature to take the fastest available remedy to rid oneself of an immediate problem, only to find that the remedy is worse than the original problem. Think of the German High Command sending Lenin to Russia in 1917. That worked, for Russia imploded in revolution, but the consequences turned out not quite as foreseen at the time, particularly for Germany. So it is with the government’s online harms proposals. These were put out for consultation during the election and the responses have not been made public. Possibly they...