Honest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law

Why HN readers recommended it

Commenters recommend it as an entertaining, accessible explanation of how bad the law is, including for non-technical audiences.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

thejuicemedia

Topic

australian anti-encryption law

Format

comedy

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2019

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This video they made is absolutely hilarious, and shows just how un-hilarious and fucked up these proposed changes are: [VIDEO]

• FWIW, I've had pretty good success in getting non-techie friends and family to write in after showing them this video: [VIDEO] It's very entertaining, and explains it in a way that everyday people can understand how bad it will be. I highly urge all Australians …

• I came across this video that shows the potential issues with this bill [VIDEO] What is concerning is I am building a information management system that focuses on privacy and this sort of bill makes a mockery of the entire concept.