Frank wrote on Aug 8
th, 2026 at 12:03pm:
Armchair_Politician wrote on Aug 8
th, 2026 at 10:05am:
Here in Australia, we have the Australian Communications and Media Authority to oversee what we see and hear on TV, radio and in print and online media. They have broad powers to ensure what we see and hear is truthful and can punish media organisations who break the law. In the US, there is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), but they have very narrow, limited powers compared to ACMA, and it’s currently controlled by Trump sycophants who have no motivation to stop lies being told that benefit Trump. The big difference is that ACMA is entirely independent while the FCC has basically been taken over by Trump.
'Oversee' eh??
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has threatened social media giant X with a $910,000 fine if it does not immediately remove an article by a US-based feminist that raised concerns about an Australian Medical Association Victoria staff member who has regularly generated and posted extreme transgender pornography in public online forums.The action against feminist writer Genevieve Gluck is the latest in a series of cases Julie Inman-Grant has chosen to pursue against critics of
The employee – whom The Australian has chosen not to name – remains in the role, which involves liaising with AHPRA and medical colleges.
The eSafety Commissioner on Tuesday wrote to Elon Musk-owned social media giant X, citing a complaint from the employee that claims Ms Gluck’s post contravenes the Online Safety Act, in that it constitutes “serious cyber-abuse meant to cause physical or psychological harm, surpassing mere offence”.
The post featured screenshots of graphic self-made pornography and lewd comments the employee had publicly posted on sites including OnlyFans, FetLife and X.
Ms Gluck used male pronouns to refer to the biological male, who identifies as a trans woman, and questioned the employee’s fitness for the AMA Victoria role.
The article also detailed the AMA’s controversial support for gender-affirming care, including the use of hormones to halt puberty in children.
“(The employee) was hired by the AMA,” Ms Gluck wrote. “Yet disturbingly, (the employee) has been producing and posting extreme pornography of himself on social media for years, and has referenced the genre of ‘forced feminisation’ – a type of pornography that eroticises men being forced to wear lingerie, take female hormones, and perform sexual acts while pretending to be a woman.
The eSafety Commissioner is threatening NOT the pornographer but his critic, a woman, and X for giving the woman the space to voice her concerns.
I don't want this sort of 'overseeing'. Yes, but you're a naughty old foreign alien, now aren't you?
We Aussies want X subject to the same child exploitation and kiddie porn laws as the rest of us.
This is, after all, what the debate you're weighing in on is all about - foreign corporate juggernauts flying in, setting up shop and flaunting our laws.
Your article's just a cute piece of PR from our friends over at the Australian. What some AMA employee does in the privacy of her online safe space is up to her, dear. This isn't about trannies, feminism or free speech at all, it's about ensuring social media giants put measures in place to stop our kiddies being targeted with ultimately suicidal content.
Elon in particular has expressed his outright contempt for government intervention. His pro-Gluck posts are the act of a troll with a lot at stake. There is overwhelming popular support for government regulation, and we Aussies are cautiously going ahead. The Brits and Europeans are watching closely - even your own DL. He knows what a vote-winner looks like, or does when the last person he spoke with points it out.
He also likes to play his subjects off against each other and get a piece of the action - Larry Ellison's control of Tic Toc; Elon's ownership of X.
Our own government has no such motives. Our politicians can't personally profit, their campaigns are mostly public funded, and we now have a National Anti Corruption Commission if they veer off course. This is what it's like to live in a full democracy - as opposed to the rigged, authoritarian kleptocracy you promote.
With the tech and social media sector more monopolized than the robber barons of the gilded age, we do indeed want this kind of overseeing. At the very least, Tic Toc, X, Meta and Google should be forced to disclose their algorithms - full transparency. I'd be breaking them up too, but alas, that's a job for Uncle.
Elon's monopoly alone has the ability to turn elections - exactly what happened in 2024.
As for you, we know hysterical, high-pitched virtue-signalling when we see it. This is your usual culture wars distraction. Trans athletes, stealing our pets, clutching your pearls. It's a game as old as - well, you.
Yes, you naughty old blow-in,
you.
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