Remember when commenting on Hacker News: it's an international community.

Australia doesn't protect freedom of expression in the same way the US does. Indeed, there's a decent chunk of the world that's perfectly rational and sees our relatively laissez-faire attitude on some Bill of Rights content as dangerous to a survivable society.

You can’t run in a movie theatre and yell fire. There are limits, the internet does not remove the need for basic human decency.