Based with Senator Alex Antic

#44 Michael Shellenberger – Digital Duty of Care

Based with Senator Alex Antic

Show Notes

Michael Shellenberger is a leading investigative journalist wellknown for his work on the Twitter Files. He is the founder and president of Civilization Works, a nonprofit that incubates ideas, leaders, and movements, and cofounder of the California Peace Coalition.

Michael is a fierce advocate for freedom of speech, and in 2024 he campaigned extensively against the Labor Government’s proposed “Mis and Dis Information” laws. His work played a major role in ensuring those proposed lawswere never introduced into the Parliament.

A previous guest on Based Podcast, on this episode SenatorAntic and Michael discuss the serious and frightening reality of the Government’s dystopian “Digital Duty of Care” Bill, the state of freedom of speech online both in Australia and around the world, and the dwindling support for the near defunct “climate change” scare narrative.

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