It's just a power play of the Media Left ALP against the Internet Right.
The Media is even trying to take control and influence over the Internet by introducing the Podcast Award in their Globe/Oscar Awards - the nominations are all Lefty Podcasters obviously 

Carl D wrote on Dec 9^th, 2025 at 11:04am:


Yeah, that's new to me.

Never heard of that before.

I'm one of those annoying people who uses full words and correct punctuation when sending text messages 

If someone sends me a text saying "HRU?", I usually don't answer.

Ten year old told me this afternoon all you got to do is get a vpn and put it in front of your isp and they don’t know your in Australia?

Note- I have no clue what she was talking about but apparently it’s free and you don’t need to buy a stupid mask from Temu?

I feel so old 😒

News break ..... for a week before Adlertag I've been dog-fighting wave after wave of Kidwaffe bombers and fighters coming over the Channel in numbers daily - from here and the US... some of the US ones are also closed down - apparently Farcebook got the message.. and fears of another multi-billion dollar class action made them see things with a right mind.

I said long ago now that hospitals had the ability to keep out specified sites - just as one example...... so it would appear that the technology has already way out-stripped all of us.... and shutting down Dorkhanders is a matter of pushing a button.... and I think you'll find that the techs are already way in front of you.

Now - back to the hospitals' ability to exclude sites... it is only a matter of marketing for parents to get the same... and with the incredible advance of AI - not before time.

I approached Facebook's legals about providing a safe space for all to discuss openly and freely without vicious posts in return..... and the air is clean over Facebook at the moment.....

So - next comment?

I'll start - is it time that the internet was brought under proper control given the verbal violence and abuse that has poured from many over it for far too long?  Kids have suicided because of bullying and trolling, so a 'clean' internet is best for everyone... and now adult-minded people can discuss properly.... and sites such as predators who chat kids into cutting off their balls and such, and paedophile sites grooming - can be fully investigated, though Australia lacks the resources of - say - the US - where the FBI does this work...

Second comment - are there REAL dangers in that for freedom of speech and freedom of the airwaves for exchange of ideas - even ones we don't like?  JFK once said that the free exchange of ideas was one guarantee of a free society... he didn't mean free exchange of secure information etc.

Third comment:-  Is the surging of AI a danger to real communication between individuals and especially to young and vulnerable minds?

So where do we stand now, my fine feathered acolytes?

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Dec 10^th, 2025 at 9:45am:


Having a US IP will depend on which platform they use now - a few massive lawsuits have finally brought the Internet Kings to the table over proper standards - and many of the accounts claiming to be US - on Facebook - that ganged up on me (poor bastards) are now gone as well. A few billion in fines and damages scars them.

In terms of universal censorship - the danger is that 'enemies of the state' so proclaimed can be cut off simply for holding unpopular views - and the government of the day can mandate that any dissidents etc be shut down.  Anyone who does not yet know the historical precedents of where that kind of thing leads is beyond help.

We already have a media which is hopelessly tilted to one  version of reality - and which automatically gives little airplay to the 'other' sides of question, and in one way, the internet has been until now a free highway for information, although with a lot of bad things also passing through - a lot of disinformation and misinformation and frankly indoctrination and propaganda.

My view has always been that genuinely held views should be publicly aired so that the people can decide for themselves.  I note a massive increase in pro-Islamic posts these days and their upset over being forced to live in a country different from their often harsh Dark Ages ideas - to most of which I respond with a laugh.

So I suggest we need a national discussion of this.... not just the same old shady back-room super-indoctrinated twits making judgements for all of society based on some infantile ideology long outgrown by Humanity - those so-called experts, such as those determining 'land rights claims' and similar madness at this time.

The people, for the first time in Australia - must take control over the process.  You saw what happened with the 'voice' madness - the people said NO - so were back-stabbed as being the worthless peasants they are viewed as by those in 'power'.  The greatest danger to democracy these days is governments.....

Well, social media bans are now in force.
What is to come is the age verification for search engines on 27/12/2025.

That is going to be big!   I guess, we all have to verify to google and yahoo soon. 
I can just see the data being hacked and sold by hackers.   

“Asked whether expectations should be tightened, Mr Albanese said he did not want to "influence that from the top"

I suggest perhaps he should be influencing from the top as opposed to wasting millions more of taxpayer money on a social media ban debacle.

Just like Anika Wells- it doesn’t work