<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nothrabannosir</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; You can&amp;#x27;t expect an opposition, who are in a very strong position right now to die on their sword for what is, for the vast majority of Australians, a fringe issue.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think you make an intuitive point here that warrants attention: you’re not wrong, someone is free to “pick their battles”, and be strategical. And that’s fine.&lt;p&gt;However, when they do, they should face the consequences.&lt;p&gt;Supposedly, this is a fringe issue, and only the people on HN will care. So we shouldn’t chastise them for being strategical.&lt;p&gt;But you &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; on HN! This is where those few people are, who care! So this is where they are held to account. If nobody else does, great, then you were right and it was a fringe issue. But that’s not up to you to decide.&lt;p&gt;It’s essentially like a market. If Apple decides to “piss off” developers by removing the F keys, do we tell people on HN not to be crybabies because “it’s a fringe issue”? “You know they were right from their perspective, so keep buying Apple products”? No. Those who liked F keys enough will stop, and the market will decide how important it really was and who was right.&lt;p&gt;Same with political issues.&lt;p&gt;This is not idealism. This is people choosing their battles. The Australian government did. The people here do. Just a market for votes. Nothing idealistic about it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ux-app</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s just them trying to save face. By all means the bill is in and the damage shall begin immediately.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sick of all this idealism. Life is not a Disney movie. Labor did what they could under the circumstances. I hate it as much as anyone else, but c&amp;#x27;mon, You can&amp;#x27;t expect an opposition, who are in a very strong position right now to die on their sword for what is, for the vast majority of Australians, a fringe issue.</text></item><item><author>ehnto</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t buy it sorry. They failed to protect Australias best interests. This was their opportunity to stop it, not next year. It&amp;#x27;s not like they haven&amp;#x27;t had time to examine it, they know exactly what is in the bill. If it is no good then don&amp;#x27;t let it go on until it is. It&amp;#x27;s just them trying to save face. By all means the bill is in and the damage shall begin immediately.</text></item><item><author>ux-app</author><text>it&amp;#x27;s bipartisan in the interests of pragmatism. Labor were forced to collude because idiot Scomo and his buddies decided to go for the cheap &amp;quot;keep Aussies safe over Christmas&amp;quot; banter. Labor capitulated with the proviso that the bill be reexamined next year. Let&amp;#x27;s reserve judgement until then.</text></item><item><author>aplummer</author><text>Insanely it is bipartisan, I think only the greens voted against it.</text></item><item><author>danieltillett</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Would an Australian employee of 1Password be forced to lie to us and do something that we would definitely object to?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;We do not, at this point, know whether it will be necessary or useful to place extra monitoring on people working for 1Password who may be subject to Australian laws.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;So not only does this idiotic law destroy the Australian software industry, it could prevent Australians from being hired outside Australia. Someone or some group in the Liberal&amp;#x2F;National Party (the current government here in Australia) really, really, really hates developers.&lt;p&gt;Edit. Time for some Aussie geek civil disobedience I think.&lt;p&gt;Edit 2. We have a huge number of Aussie developers here on HN. Let&amp;#x27;s use this to organise some sort of protest. Either that or we will all be off to Centrelink.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Does Australia&apos;s access and assistance law impact 1Password?</title><url>https://blog.1password.com/does-australias-access-and-assistance-law-impact-1password/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thomasfoster96</author><text>Labor quite clearly did not do what they could under the circumstances. If the Opposition is incapable of actually opposing something they had serious reservations about they aren’t really trying.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ux-app</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s just them trying to save face. By all means the bill is in and the damage shall begin immediately.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sick of all this idealism. Life is not a Disney movie. Labor did what they could under the circumstances. I hate it as much as anyone else, but c&amp;#x27;mon, You can&amp;#x27;t expect an opposition, who are in a very strong position right now to die on their sword for what is, for the vast majority of Australians, a fringe issue.</text></item><item><author>ehnto</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t buy it sorry. They failed to protect Australias best interests. This was their opportunity to stop it, not next year. It&amp;#x27;s not like they haven&amp;#x27;t had time to examine it, they know exactly what is in the bill. If it is no good then don&amp;#x27;t let it go on until it is. It&amp;#x27;s just them trying to save face. By all means the bill is in and the damage shall begin immediately.</text></item><item><author>ux-app</author><text>it&amp;#x27;s bipartisan in the interests of pragmatism. Labor were forced to collude because idiot Scomo and his buddies decided to go for the cheap &amp;quot;keep Aussies safe over Christmas&amp;quot; banter. Labor capitulated with the proviso that the bill be reexamined next year. Let&amp;#x27;s reserve judgement until then.</text></item><item><author>aplummer</author><text>Insanely it is bipartisan, I think only the greens voted against it.</text></item><item><author>danieltillett</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Would an Australian employee of 1Password be forced to lie to us and do something that we would definitely object to?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;We do not, at this point, know whether it will be necessary or useful to place extra monitoring on people working for 1Password who may be subject to Australian laws.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;So not only does this idiotic law destroy the Australian software industry, it could prevent Australians from being hired outside Australia. Someone or some group in the Liberal&amp;#x2F;National Party (the current government here in Australia) really, really, really hates developers.&lt;p&gt;Edit. Time for some Aussie geek civil disobedience I think.&lt;p&gt;Edit 2. We have a huge number of Aussie developers here on HN. Let&amp;#x27;s use this to organise some sort of protest. Either that or we will all be off to Centrelink.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Does Australia&apos;s access and assistance law impact 1Password?</title><url>https://blog.1password.com/does-australias-access-and-assistance-law-impact-1password/</url></story>