Senator Ralph Babet will today introduce a bill to repeal the Albanese Government’s rushed, risky and fundamentally unworkable ban on under-16s using social media.
“This law was sold as child protection. In reality, it does the opposite. It is intrusive, it is dangerous, and it opens the door for future mass surveillance of every Australian,” Senator Babet said.
“This is not about safety. This is the first step towards government-controlled speech on the internet, wrapped up in the language of ‘protecting the kids.’ We’ve seen that trick before.
“The 2024 act forces social media companies to verify every user’s age, because you can’t verify if someone is under 16, without verifying the age of all over 16s. As a result of this act, adult Australians will be forced to hand over sensitive personal data. Once you create massive pools of age verification data, in time they will be breached. It’s not a risk, it’s a guarantee,” he said.
Senator Babet warned “the ban will push young people off mainstream platforms and into darker, less regulated corners of the internet. Nothing says ‘child safety’ like forcing kids into the online equivalent of back alleys.
“Even the government’s own trial results exposed the farce. The so-called ‘approved’ technology misidentified teenagers’ age by decades. That’s not safeguarding. That’s guesswork with consequences.”
Human rights bodies, including the Australian Human Rights Commission, have already sounded the alarm, warning the law undermines privacy, freedom of expression, and children’s rights under international conventions.
Senator Babet said that “even the eSafety Commissioner has compared this policy to banning kids from the ocean instead of teaching them how to swim. When the government’s own censorship office is calling you heavy-handed, you know you’ve gone too far.
“This government is showing its authoritarian instincts. If they truly cared about children, they’d trust the people who actually raise them: their parents. The government is not your daddy.
“Parents, not bureaucrats, are responsible for teaching their children how to navigate the online world. Safety comes from education, parental tools, and platform responsibility, not from mass surveillance and mandatory ID checks.
“And here’s the hypocrisy: in Australia, this government will let children undergo gender transition, but apparently those same children can’t be trusted to watch YouTube. It’s absurd.
“The Act fails every test. It fails privacy, proportionality, and common sense.
“My repeal bill is necessary to restore privacy, protect freedom, and return sanity to our digital laws,” he said.
Honestly most people freely post their pictures to facebook/instagram so who cares about globalist ID.
Most idiots willingly support the continued used of it when they travel on their passport, or when they even drive on a main road, buy a car with android Auto/GPS, or carry a phone with them.
Conspire about it all you want – but what are YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT OTHER THAN COMPLAIN ON A COMMENTS SECTION>
What’s most bizarre is so many think Digital ID is being introduced by Albonese and his cronies when nothing could be further from the truth.
Digital ID, like just about every other policy introduced globally in the last several years originated in a white paper by the World Economic Forum.
Clearly the WEF is a foreign entity with graduates of their Young Global Leaders program installed in governments world wide including our own.
As far as I’m aware, forcing the will of a foreign entity on an unwilling population is treason, the public permitting such actions is stupidity and there’s not a peep about either from anyone.
Digital ID was always about mass surveillance and mandatory ID checks, plus curtailment of free speech. ‘Child safety’ was the feelgood excuse for the naive and brain dead. No State or federal government does anything to benefit the people. All legislation is about money – how to screw as much as you can from the taxpayer (by taxes, levies, charges, fines, etc.), even if the trail is not immediately obvious. And through financial penalties, behavioural control is exercised. Democracy is being stabbed to death in Australia.
This law has nothing to do with ‘protecting kids’. Simply, the government is compelling social media companies to vet EVERYONE’s age before they can use social media.
It’s the governments slimy, deceitful way of getting everyone to ‘voluntarily’ adopt digital ID…
Next step: you wont be able to access any government services without your ‘voluntary’ digital ID…
The government is moving to make cash legal tender in
very few instances, moving to a cashless economy. The government doesnt have to ban cash outright. Businesses
will refuse cash, banks will make cash near impossible to obtain (and all the cash you’ve been storing under the mattress ‘for an emergency’ will be rendered useless !!)
Fmr Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz laments to Jewish Federation that people are finding content from “Al Jazeera and Nick Fuentes” on social media and seeing videos of “the carnage in Gaza.”
Holocaust education has backfired in part as people see Palestinians as Jews’ victims, she adds.
“They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people.”
(The lesson they were supposed to get is that it gives Israel the right to commit genocide in perpetuity.)
https://x.com/infolibnews/status/1990634043218534790
Zionists Pine for Censorship at World Jewish Congress, Jewish Leadership Conference and More
Tikvah’s Jewish Leadership Conference brought together over a thousand “American” Zionists on Sunday to fight “Mamdani-style anti-Zionism” being “normalized on the left” and “the Tucker–Fuentes cancer spreading on the right,” according to Tikvah’s Avi Garson.
They gave the Herzl Prize to Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss and Dan Senor for using their positions to promote “Jewish flourishing and Israeli sovereignty.”
“Ben Shapiro devoted an entire show to explaining why—in video clip after video clip—Tucker Carlson is, in Ben’s words … the most virulent super-spreader of vile ideas in America,” Jonathan Silver, Tikvah’s chief programming officer, told the conference to roaring applause.
The “common theme” throughout the talks was “the importance of repudiating Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens … especially by those in the conservative movement,” attendee Tali Goldsheft said on X.
“Bari made a point of stating that JD Vance has yet to distance himself from Tucker Carlson, which remains quite disconcerting, to say the least,” she added.
Elise Stefanik also spoke about “combating anti-Semitism” at the event and attacked Gov. Hochul as well as Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
The event was titled, “Can the Jews Save the West?”
Palantir’s Joe Lonsdale and his wife were also given awards.
Israel First GOP megadonor Paul Singer is listed as a top donor.
Other speakers listed for the event include Elliott Abrams, Ruth Wisse and Trump’s US Ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz.
The Trump admin in Sept rewarded Tikvah with the largest grant in NEH history—$10.4 million—to counter “the pathology of anti-Semitism” and teach the Talmu
https://israelpalestinenews.org/zionists-pine-for-censorship-at-world-jewish-congress-jewish-leadership-conference-and-more/
templar1066 wrote “The church was not happy…”
Especially not with the book written by Stewart Ross.
https://archive.org/details/godhisbookbiblew00ross/mode/1up
Are you people stupid? This policy has been known about for over a year and not one person has pointed out the fact the last day of parliament is November 27.
This clown waits until the day before parliament ends for the year to oppose a policy scheduled to commence in less than two weeks and you people think he’s on the public’s side.
It’s no wonder the country’s falked, it’s full of idiots!
Why Are Volcanoes That Have Been Dormant For Ages Suddenly Roaring To Life All Over The World?
Michael Snyder
Nov 25
https://michaeltsnyder.substack.com/p/why-are-volcanoes-that-have-been
In a nutshell, it’s about the protection of the investors on the stockmarket of CHILDREN after BIRTHING. Of course Labor is not your “daddy” but the gubberment is. (In loco Parentis) Wonder if Senator Babet knows.
The church was not happy with the invention of the printing press as it gave the common people access to inexpensive written material that could potentially question the church’s values and its interpretation of the bible. In the 1950s parents in the US wanted ‘Rock and Roll’ banned as it was deemed to have a negative influence on teenagers. In the 1970s comics were considered harmful for a child’s reading development. The under 16 internet ban is just another nonsensical, unwarranted and futile intervention.
Not only under 16s will check the dark web. As for caring about children, it was only a few years ago authorities were herding school children into sports stadiums for mass injections with an substance that had a very dangerous safety profile according to the CDC. Some of those children are no longer with us, some are seriously damaged.
I wonder if these clowns in all their wisdom, have considered the ramifications of their misguided controls, those 16 and under will be voters in 2+ years, I know if I were them I would want my revenge and vote the BASTARDS out!!
Super well & clearly expressed. Perhaps even open some folks’ eyes. YES! Thank you, Senator Babet.
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