I wonder how many under 16 teens will hold a grudge against a government that took away their social media? 

I just got an email response from the Labor MP I wrote to about this. It only took 6 weeks.

Apparently websites are allowed to 'infer' your age if you are obviously over 18. The example he gave is:

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He failed to address any of the concerns I raised.

freediver wrote on Dec 4^th, 2025 at 10:04am:


Yep, that's my understanding.

When YouTube looks at my viewing history they'll see lots of dad rock videos and news reports - obviously over 16.

If it was full of Taylor Swift music videos, toy unboxing and cartoons they might start asking for ID.

How Australia's world-leading social media ban will be enforced according to 9news.

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What if SMC in question is overseas?

tallowood wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2025 at 10:50am:




They might.

Look deeper -
that info will either be sold to the highest bidder
or it will be stolen by hackers so they can steal money from people's bank accounts.

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As a father of a 16yr old and a 13 yr old, good on em.

Chris Bowen left X after getting constantly fact checked and moved to BlueSky

The leftist cesspit full of pedos BlueSky isn't restricted by the Esafety Karens new rules.

Why is the leftist BlueSky exempt?

freediver wrote on Dec 4^th, 2025 at 12:50pm:


They are not asleep at the wheel.

In Marxist ['Command Economy'] states you are not permitted to question the dictates that 'have been decided for us'.

You are only permitted to obey......the directives of the state.


Lack/loss of [individual] choice.

Fear a government which will, by default, simply, remove our choice
to decide our own [lawful] means, to achieve happiness and fulfillment, in life.

Marxism.     Authoritarianism.



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Baronvonrort wrote on Dec 4^th, 2025 at 10:46pm:


Only a moron would take my comment to mean anyone is outsourcing parenting responsibility

John Smith wrote on Dec 5^th, 2025 at 6:36am:


So you think parents should manage their own children's internet access, not the government?

freediver wrote on Dec 5^th, 2025 at 7:22am:


Of course. I also think that there is a limit to how parents can do that. Kids always find a way. My kids had ZERO internet access for the two years prior to this year, and still they were up to date on all the latest internet hits, youtube videos etc.
Any help parents can get to limit exposure to the crap online is a good thing.

freediver wrote on Dec 5^th, 2025 at 7:43am:



Of course. No one said it was foolproof. Every bit helps.

Kids will try running scripts to hit a group of more adult sites during and at the end of their sessions. maybe before going to a social media site. Say they were to set a group of aged care or aged pension related pages. Followed by wheel chair queries. Then on to face book.

Take away the kids phones and send them to church to pray:

How will they be banned if they are Offshore companies? 

It's already done in places like public hospitals where certain sites cannot be entered into.  The technology already exists and has done for a long time to cut off sites that are not wanted.

People - PEOPLE - 1984 was with us for a long time already - just look at the doublethink that comes out online daily from the 'modern educated types' under the feminocracy - Albot just thinks the time has come for an open revolution.  He wants to see the country go down his way before he dies - he wants to be in the history books as an Elder Statesman - but he's more of an elder Stasiman.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 5^th, 2025 at 9:34pm:


Doesn't work. There mates will show them what you don't want them to see anyway. My kids had no phones, no internet access. Only now that he's turned 16 is my oldest allowed a phone and I've got them internet at home.

freediver wrote on Dec 7^th, 2025 at 3:02pm:

Struggling today FD? I thought it was pretty clear. The point is that it doesn't work. It's the first two words in my comment

We pay this esafety Karen $450K a year.

She has lost just about every court case against Elon costing taxpayers millions.

Abolish the whole esafety censorship nonsense and save taxpayers millions every year.

Social Media has Terms of Service that are adequate we don't need this expensive bullshit that is a waste of taxpayers money.

Baronvonrort wrote on Dec 7^th, 2025 at 10:30pm:

As Australia big day dawns on the world stage and the world watching.

All goggles of The minister in charge of Australia first Chinese inspired internet content control are showing Anika Wells controversy, corruption and rampant rorts. Her failure to provide a service that can allow the public to access emergency services.

And the whole world watching smiles and laughs.

“ convicts going to convict “.

And look forward to the poo show Australia social media ban is sure to become!

Aussie Aussie is so funny

freediver wrote on Dec 8^th, 2025 at 10:48am:


So cry about it.

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greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 8^th, 2025 at 1:45pm:



Good video - shows Albo is a fool.

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 8^th, 2025 at 1:59pm:




https://dailydeclaration.org.au/2023/08/16/anthony-albanese-would-ban-social-med...



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Freedom
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The PM was speaking hypothetically, but was his idea to ‘ban social media’ a Freudian slip?

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese would “ban social media” if he was made dictator for five years, he confessed in a radio interview this week.

The PM made the candid admission on Monday, in a long-form conversation with Neil Mitchell on Radio 3AW Melbourne.

The hour-long Neil Mitchell Asks Why dialogue opened with the host asking a humorous ice breaker: “You are dictator for five years. What do you do? What’s your first act?”

After laughing, Mr Albanese clarified, “I’m not a supporter of dictatorship.” He then reflected for a moment and replied, “I think the big frustrating thing, if I could do something, maybe ban social media, would be handy.”

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 8^th, 2025 at 1:59pm:


Ummm - excuse me - these kids are minors - their parents get to make the decisions even if it's about cutting of their balls and tits and stuff... or even worse - self-identifying as Aboriginal....   

I was having a look at this on YouTube a couple of weeks back:



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Yes, how did they manage to survive?

I use the trains quite a bit these days and all I see on the trains and at the stations (especially Perth station where there's lots of people most of the time) is hundreds of people with their faces glued to their phones.

I saw one girl on the train coming back from Mosman Park a couple of weeks back where she was so engrossed in her phone that she pushed the door opening button on the wrong side of the train for her station (you can press the button before the train stops at the station) and she didn't notice the train had stopped and the doors hadn't opened.

The train had started moving again before she realised what had happened (I think one of the other passengers told her actually). 

Daves2017 wrote on Dec 8^th, 2025 at 10:38pm:




But, I'm pretty sure if newspapers, magazines and books were banned on public transport for some reason back then we wouldn't have seen the tantrums and meltdowns that we're about to see with the under 16's social media ban starting on Wednesday.

I have my popcorn ready.

And, as I and many others have said - this really has nothing to do with "protecting the children". This is more about the government gradually working its way towards pushing their "Digital ID" crap on everyone and taking control of what is being said about the government online.

And being able to identify who is saying bad things about them online.

They already have a large amount of 'control' regarding what is being said about them in the mainstream print and TV media. Now they want total control of everything.

Welcome to 1984. A few decades later than expected but we finally made it.

Carl D wrote on Dec 8^th, 2025 at 10:58pm:


I think you've seen more tantrums on here by FD then you're likely to see from most kids

Carl D wrote on Dec 8^th, 2025 at 9:11pm:


What's FML?   

Meanwhile, one day to go until the "ban" and this is in today's The West Australian.

The small piece is on the front page and there's a 2 page 'spread' on pages 8 and 9.

What a surprise.

I wonder what Julie and Anika's excuses will be when it becomes obvious - probably in 6 months time or less - that this "ban" is a complete failure?

Or will they just go completely silent and pretend the whole thing has gone away or never happened? Like the pollies did/are still doing with Covid?

But, having said all that I also have to say it is quite entertaining to watch our teenagers make complete and utter fools out of the politicians. Even though it really isn't difficult to do that these days.

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

lol... 

https://x.com/Pirat_Nation/status/1998424788344385607

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I love watching people making our pollies look like the incompetent idiots that they are. And, it's extremely funny watching teenagers doing it.

Millions wasted on this esafety nonsense which is proving to be useless.

Annika and AnAl speak proudly to the UN with implementing this UN policy.

12th Dec  2025

Australia Just Entered a New Era of Government Control | Redacted w Clayton Morris


https://rumble.com/v72v6ug-australia-just-entered-a-new-era-of-government-contro...

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 12^th, 2025 at 10:24am:


I've been waiting for that one... I suspect that some sites are already moving to quickly get rid of minors who are reported, as a start.  Anyone who sees the way they 'think' would see why they should be held back from discussion until at least age sixteen - some of them are as bad as some of the 'adults' here who've been at it for years now... you all know who I mean.

tickleandrose wrote on Dec 11^th, 2025 at 4:07pm:


Actually ages old accounts like yours will pass through ..

Carl D wrote on Dec 12^th, 2025 at 7:38pm:


Maybe they were concerned there was a creepy male staring at them, they were probably scared having someone constantly staring them.

Carl D wrote on Dec 12^th, 2025 at 8:09pm:


No I didn't know, I only knew what you wrote "the two girls didn't look up from their phones even once." To me that means you were constantly watching them, which I find weird and creepy.