Australians reach for VPNs, find porn sites blocked as online age-restrictions take effect - Sight Magazine Australians were downloading virtual private networks, while one of the world's largest porn distributors said it was blocking users.

Australians reach for VPNs, find porn sites blocked as online age-restrictions take effect @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Australia #VPNs #ageverification #pornography #AIchatbots #JulieInmanGrant

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Australia social media ban hits 4.7 million teen accounts in first month - Sight Magazine Social media companies have collectively deactivated nearly five million accounts belonging to Australian teenagers.

Australia social media ban hits 4.7 million teen accounts in first month @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Australia #socialmediaban #eSafetyCommissioner #AnthonyAlbanese #JulieInmanGrant

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Fears Australia set to permanently ban X A senator has warned Australians of rumours circulating in Canberra of plans to ban X after UK PM Keir Starmer said he was considering blocking the platform.

Esafety commissioner #JulieInmanGrant is anti- #X for the WRONG REASONS.

Senator #RalphBabet is pro X for the WRONG REASONS.

For altogether much more objective views than Inman Grant has I think the best thing would be if the totally #AI controlled X was banned in Australia.

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US Congress threatens to compel Australia’s eSafety Commissioner to testify amid global censorship claims The US House of Representatives has threatened to compel Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant to testify over allegations that the regulator harassed American tech companies and attempted to “implement a global censorship regime”.

US based big tech controls the internet. It controls the world. #JulieInmanGrant is loved in the #EU and is a known #WEF mouthpiece.

That's why it's a near certainty that the #MAGA controlled Congress is going to roast her like a Thanksgiving 🦃 over her "global censorship agendas".

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Live: Social media ban leaves families, teens questioning access and verification Ten major platforms are now expected to check the ages of all their Australian users and prevent anyone found to be under 16 from holding an account. Our experts have been answering your questions to ...

If the @albomp.bsky.social government and e-safety commissioner #JulieInmanGrant resorts to "going after" alternative niche "messaging apps" which barely qualify as social media, if Aussie kids under 16 attempt to switch to them, then you know these laws are totalitarian and fascist.

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Australia Pushes Back on Big Tech as Teen Social Media Ban Begins - Australia’s eSafety Commissioner defends the nation’s teen social media ban, rejecting “technological exceptionalism” and...

Australia Pushes Back on Big Tech as Teen Social Media Ban Begins
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Obscure messaging apps soar on app store as teens evade Labor's social media ban Obscure messaging apps have surged to the top of Apple’s App Store as teenagers seek ways to circumvent the Albanese government’s new social media ban for under-16s.

Kids these days are so "tech savvy". They're smart.

Most of them probably have the intuition to know that #AnikaWells and e-safety commissioner, "her Lordship", #JulieInmanGrant, are power trippers who didn't cut them off from social media because they CARE FOR THEM.

So they're saying 🖕🖕you. 😁😁

Julie Inman Grant: Who is the Australian woman taking on the social media behemoths? She’s drawn the ire of Elon Musk, been doxed, she and her family have received death threats: The perils of overseeing the world’s first social media ban

Good try @australia.theguardian.com in patronising #JulieInmanGrant & painting her as some kind of "good saint" who's taking on the social media giants "against all the odds" - to protect the kiddies.

You forgot to mention her affiliation with the #WEF and the fact that she's one BIG control freak.

Christmas unplugged: Australian teen social media ban brings holiday headspace woes - Sight Magazine Sydney teenager Ayris Tolson believes the start of her first summer holiday under Australia's youth social media ban will be relatively easy.

Christmas unplugged: Australian teen social media ban brings holiday headspace woes @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Australia #socialmediaban #youngpeople #mentalhealth #ReachOut #KidsHelpline #JulieInmanGrant

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Australia says the world will follow social media ban as Meta starts blocking teens - Sight Magazine Australia's internet regulator said a teen social media ban would be the first domino to fall in a global push to rein in Big Tech.

Australia says the world will follow social media ban as Meta starts blocking teens @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Australia #socialmediaban #childrenandsocialmedia #JulieInmanGrant #eSafetyCommissioner #BigTech #Meta

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Minister Anika Wells refuses to apologise over expensive trip to New York How is this spending even remotely justifiable? Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells for a September 2025 New York trip costing over $100,000 in taxpayer funds, […] The post Minister Anika Wells refuses to apologise over expensive trip to New York first appeared on VibeWire Magazine.

Minister Anika Wells refuses to apologise over expensive trip to New York #Australia #BreakingNews #AnikaWells #eSafetyKaren #JulieInmanGrant

Australia’s eSafety commissioner rejects US Republican’s assertion she is a ‘zealot for global takedowns’ Julie Inman Grant says Australia’s Online Safety Act ‘does not impinge upon Americans’ freedom of speech’

#JulieInmanGrant is a zealot alright - sanctimonious to the extreme. She is also a shill for the #WEF and folks like #UrsulaVonDerLeyen.

Her role as Australia's e-safety commissioner is a "superficial affront". She "works" for the globalists.

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I mean to say, it's going to be an absolute circus if the e-safety commissioner, "her Lordship" #JulieInmanGrant, attempts, through the courts in Australia, to serve up multi million dollar fines against the likes of #Meta and #X.

There will be appeals after appeals, assuming any fines have basis.

"Her lordship" #JulieInmanGrant is really on her sanctimonious high horse now with some very combatant language aka warnings aimed at the major social media platforms, which I would assume includes #Bluesky.

I don't think it will be long before some of the social media bigwigs tell her to get F-ed.

Coalition urges probe into whether eSafety Commissioner ‘fit for purpose’ eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has come under fire from the Coalition, which has issued a call for an inquiry into her powers and whether the role is “fit for purpose”.

#Albanese, communications minister ANIKA WELLS and "her Lordship" #JulieInmanGrant, should all wake up to themselves, scrap the social media age verification laws, and instead pursue an immediate ban on #AI in Australia on the internet - holus bolus.

@australia.theguardian.com @dianedee.bsky.social

‘Impossible to ever break free’: eSafety Digital IDs to ‘squeeze’ Australians’ liberties Sky News host Rowan Dean discusses the eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant's implementation of eSafety digital IDs and how such oversight will “squeeze” Australians’ liberties. “But first, every single Australian, young and old, is very soon quite possibly going to be forced to choose between freedom and slavery. That might sound extreme, or even hyperbole as we say on Outsiders, but it is nonetheless the truth,” Mr Dean said. “The authoritarian forces within the government, both Labor and Coalition, have empowered the eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, to begin implementing digital censorship into this country. Once imposed, it will be impossible to ever break free of the shackles which, almost inevitably, will tighten like a python squeeze around our liberties. “But the joke is, it is we, here in Australia, in my opinion, who are in far, far greater peril if we sign on to these government eSafety digital IDs.”

The U16 social media age verification laws are JUST THE BEGINNING of e-safety commissioner, "her Lordship", #JulieInmanGrant 's power trip purge against the "online liberties & freedoms" of Australians.

Her and #Albanese have a lot more in the brew pot, straight out of communist China. Just wait!

Meta, Google, TikTok and others told to prepare for teen social media ban The eSafety commissioner has told 'a comprehensive list of technology companies' to prepare to ‘deactivate’, not delete, teens’ social media accounts and to act now to prevent young users from changin...

The writer of this @crikey.com.au article inexplicably has omitted a reference to #X/ #xAI, the absolute no. 1 prime target in the scope of the #Albanese government's U16 age verification laws.

But all "social media" is being targeted by the laws at the whim of "her lordship", Ms. #JulieInmanGrant.

‘Messy and chilling’: Labor Minister’s stunning admission about plan to ban kids from social media Communications Minister Anika Wells has conceded the rollout of her controversial under-16 social media ban will be “messy”, as she pushes for child accounts to be axed on “day one”.

Communications minister #AnikaWells is bumbling her way through trying very unconvincingly to convince ALL Australian internet users of any age that the #Albanese government's U16 social media ban laws aren't an affront to a "power grab" by "her Lordship", the e-safety commissioner #JulieInmanGrant

Government backflip on YouTube social media ban is one of Olympic proportions The government's announcement this week that YouTube would be included in the teen social media ban is a political backflip of Olympic proportions, and its first since the election. They pulled it off...

#Albanese and communications minister #AnikaWells "backflipped on #YouTube social media ban" all because of ONE single dreadfully power trippy individual - none other than "her lordship"- e-safety commissioner #JulieInmanGrant.

One person must NEVER be given such authority.

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Labor threatens $50 million in fines for platforms dodging under 16s social media ban Sky News host Steve Price discusses the implementation of age-based bans on social media platforms in Australia. Mr Price expressed scepticism about the effectiveness of these bans, highlighting the challenges of enforcing the bans, particularly concerning platforms like YouTube, where accounts are not required to view content. “My scepticism about this much hyped idea comes from the definition of what the companies must do to comply, they will be required to, quote, take reasonable steps to prevent persons under the age of 16 from creating or holding an account, well, that is well and good but you don’t need an account as far as I can work out to watch YouTube,” Mr Price said.

#Albanese & his communications minister ANIKA WELLS are "making up shit as they are going along", seemingly bewitched by this hex named #JulieInmanGrant, and the fact is, they don't have any "legal grasp" of just how hard it will be to enforce the laws & force social media companies to fully comply.

Labor gags debate on push to restore definition of man and woman in key law The Albanese government has been accused of using its mammoth parliamentary majority to supress debate after Senators blocked debate on a bill which would restore biological definitions in the Sex Discrimination Act.

Labor (and Greens) senators have very disturbingly just in the last day blocked TWO inquiries sought by the Coalition (i.e regards US beef ban backflip and the powers of renegade e-safety commissioner #JulieInmanGrant and to top it off, woke Labor senators have decided to go "gender neutral stupid".

eSafety Commissioner narrowly escapes Senate investigation into powers of role eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman grant has narrowly avoided the scrutiny of a Senate inquiry as Labor moved to block a parliamentary investigation.

To/ all Aussies who stupidly voted Labor/ Greens 1️⃣ 2️⃣ in the senate (either order) at the May election.

Just today, the 31st July, 2025, it's heir apparent how much you f***ed up.

Both parties "maliciously colluded" to block an inquiry into #JulieInmanGrant and Albo's reckless US beef ban backflip.

Coalition demands 'unelected' eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant faces ‘investigation’ and ‘scrutiny’ The Coalition has demanded an investigation into eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant after she proposed a radical regulation of search engines, which will impact every Australian.

e-Safety commissioner #JulieInmanGrant is a megalomaniac power tripper whose current "unbridled attempt" to control what every single Australian - man, woman and child, sees & engages with on the internet must be reined in immediately.

The Coalition's call for her to come under scrutiny is spot on.

Australia politics live: dip in inflation raises hopes for interest rates cut; Coalition accuses Labor of breaking promise over YouTube ban Follow live

Australia is officially a "censorship state" following the #Albanese government's kowtowing to "her lordship" #JulieInmanGrant and her grand overkill demand for all Aussie children 16 and under to be categorically banned, without any "legitimate exceptions", from having their own You Tube account.

Communications Minister once hailed YouTube as a place for kids — now she appears ready to ban it Communications Minister Anika Wells once fawned over YouTube as a way to entertain her young children — now she appears ready to ban it as a legal furore erupts in the tech world.

"Her lordship" e-safety commissioner #JulieInmanGrant appears to have communications minister #AnikaWells brainwashed and "right where she wants her" in relation to the piloted ban on You Tube for under 16s.

Even if Aussie kids are only prevented from having a You Tube account it's major overreach.

Face age and ID checks? Using the internet in Australia is about to fundamentally change New codes developed by the tech sector and eSafety commissioner come into effect in December, with major ramifications for internet users

Megalomaniac her lordship #JulieInmanGrant is "going for broke" with trying to censor everything Australians search for and access on the internet, and she is using under 16 children and adolescents to see her agenda through.

A big % of what Inman-Grant is demanding is impractical besides overkill.

eSafety Commissioner published children’s cartoons to YouTube before calling for a ban The powerful regulator lobbying Labor to ban kids from YouTube has used the same platform to publish a series of children’s cartoons on internet safety.

Megalomaniac, sanctimonious to the extreme #JulieInmanGrant, #Albanese 's "hand picked choice" to be the e-safety commissioner, has now been exposed as a complete hypocrite in regards to her ideologically fueled agenda to have 15 & under Aussie kids banned from using You Tube.

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Australian government prepares assault on privacy for under-16s social media ban Proposed techniques for age estimation of social media users include facial analysis or tracking individuals’ online metadata to determine if a user is under the age of 16.

By December, only 5 months away, Australians will be subject to the most draconian, power trippy forms of online censorship in the world.

The #Albanese government, along with that Chinese / #WEF shill named #JulieInmanGrant, are hellbent on imposing it.

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Here's a News Corp article jettisoning the same ridiculous "impossibility", unless "her majesty" megalomaniac #JulieInmanGrant who seems to think she controls the entire internet, can succeed in forcing #Google to make Australians get a Google account to use its search engine.

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I am anything but a "tech head" 😄 so I thought I better just check.

Does #JulieInmanGrant really think that she can take on Google and force it to create a "stand alone search engine" just for Australia that can't be used unless you have a Google account? She's a total twit.

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