What if the government could get your lawful opinions deleted without ever banning a single word itself?
That is exactly what the Albanese Labor Government is preparing right now.
By George Christensen
Earlier this month, the Government released the exposure draft of the Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026.
Labor is selling one friendly feature called “My Feed, My Way”, letting adults choose their own social media feed. Sounds harmless, right?
But the 75-page draft goes much, much further. It would make online services legally responsible for preventing broadly defined “harm”, with penalties of up to $109.2 million.
Here is the thing: you would never need to break a law. Your lawful speech could still become a legal risk for the platform carrying it. Social media platforms would delete first and ask questions later.
That reverses the presumption of a free society. Government should prove speech is unlawful before touching it.
We need to act now. Labor already has a detailed draft ready to be turned into legislation. Once the Albanese Government settles on a final bill and takes it to Parliament, Labor’s strict party discipline will make it far harder to stop.
Make no mistake, Billy: this is censorship by proxy. Labor imposes a vague preventive duty, backs it with crushing penalties, and lets Facebook, X and even internet search engines do the silencing.
It gets worse. Sections 25C(2), 25D(2) and 25G(2) let the Communications Minister add new categories of “harmful” material through legislative instruments, without Parliament passing a new Act. That means a minister can expand the kinds of lawful posts placed at risk of being taken down from the internet. Future ministers, from any party, would inherit that same power.
The draft even contains a vague ideological test. Material promoting “hostile attitudes towards women or gender equality” counts as harmful, with no definition given. So lawful debate about feminism, family roles or religious teaching could become a “platform safety risk”.
The free-speech safeguards in the bill are practically worthless. Section 233 only protects Australia’s narrow implied freedom of political communication. There is no clear protection for lawful political, religious, journalistic, academic or satirical speech.
And forget it just being about social media. This scheme reaches everything: search engines, app stores, hosting, artificial intelligence tools, messaging and even devices. Big Tech can afford compliance armies. Smaller platforms will censor aggressively, block Australians or shut down.
The Government is trying to frame this as being about tackling predators, terrorists and other criminals. But that’s nonsense. Child abuse, grooming, terrorism and threats are already crimes. The Government should enforce existing laws against actual offenders rather than clamping down on lawful free speech.
Add your name to our petition urging Albanese and his government to scrap this draft law.
Here is the good news: We can win this! We did it before with the Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill, their first attempt to harm free speech.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese backed this proposal, and he can direct Federal Cabinet to drop it. Communications Minister Anika Wells is responsible for turning the proposal into legislation, and she can recommend that the draft be withdrawn before any bill reaches Parliament.
Your signature builds measurable public opposition while the Government can still abandon this proposal. The Coalition already opposes the draft. Every signature strengthens the resistance, puts pressure on the Senate crossbench and makes Labor’s position more politically costly.
If we win, any future child-protection law must target precisely defined illegal conduct. Parliament, and only Parliament, will approve any new restricted category. Citizen journalism, religious teaching, academic inquiry and satire stay protected. Parents keep real tools, and the internet stays open.
If we fail, Australia gets a permanent federal censorship machine. Social media platforms will suppress lawful speech before anyone even complains. Ministers will expand “harm”, and therefore what can be censored, with the stroke of a pen. Identity checks and age verification will spread, gutting privacy and anonymity.
And future governments of any party will inherit that machinery and aim it at new targets.
There is hope. But only if you act right now.
Labor already has the blueprint for these sweeping new powers. We need a flood of signatures before the Government turns that blueprint into law.
Thank you for standing up for free speech in Australia.
George Christensen and the entire team CitizenGO
P.S. Labor’s Digital Duty of Care draft would let ministers and regulators pressure platforms into censoring lawful Australian speech. The Government already has the draft and could move it towards Parliament. Click here and sign our petition to oppose it now!
lol ….. “Act now”? ….. If you want to act know you better know first that threats to your freedom don’t come from legislation they come from people. Those people are the threat to whom you need to act.
I agree. Yeah, we must all ask our ‘public servants’ nicely to be nice to us.
Lock Them Up
https://www.news.com.au/finance/culture/inside-parliament/pauline-hanson-launches-one-nation-victorian-state-election-campaign/news-story/3f08009e2c55b476957282616a829016
The water runs off the land as it should John.
No free man shall be taken indeed imprisoned, either dispossessed, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, nor pass over him, nor send over him, except by means of the lawful judgment of his own equals which is the law of the land.
A.l. beat me to last comment. Name is ant.
Bottom line is many of those party members came to Oz when their Komunist regimes supposedly broke up. All by plan they came here to run Australian security, hence our predicament.
“Federal Court legal action accuses Labor of 153 crimes in digital ID push.”
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“Will you kick out Albanese’s Communist government in 2028, if not before?”
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“STATEMENT OF POSITION AND PROFESSIONAL STANDING
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Thiel is the personification of the meaning of the word psychopath: A human mask worn by a non-human entity that has no understanding of right from wrong.
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He, her, them, they, whatever, might have experienced a midlife guilt-tripping moment.
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Projecting Goethe’s Faust he is torn between the bad Peter and the good Peter; internalising self forgiveness for their own wrongdoings. — Palantir maybe.
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“He contrasted Christopher Marlowe’s doomed “fake scientist” with Goethe’s Faust, who obtains knowledge by “morally dubious means” but ends up redeemed.” — Joe’s link
I don’t really know how the Australian govt is going to enforce these massive fines. These big tech companies aren’t in Australia. They’re in the US where free speech is enshrined in their constitution. In fact it’s so enshrined and held as precious that it is the very first amendment and the second amendment which is the right to bare arms is there to defend the 1st amendment. This is all because the US colonists experienced absolute tyranny where censorship of free speech was a terrifying foundation of that tyranny and fed it. That’s why they had the war of independence.
I think that is very telling about the designs of Albo and his power hungry goons for this country.
That includes that bureaucratic power hungry, frothing at the mouth ekaren. Remember when she was a big wig at Twitter she turned it into a far left extremist Nightmare and censored any conservative opinions.
Musk had to buy it and throw her out just to make it a free space again. Now she’s BACK and in kahoots with this far left extremist govt doing the same thing here.
She’s conspiring with a foreign institution, the WEF to bring that censorship here because it was truth tellers that exposed the deadly agenda and outright genocide of the Covid jab and the complicity of the govts and media etc.
they decided to censor any truth that could spoil their plans for next time and label it “misinformation”. So it seems that all of this censoring is prep for their next assault on humanity.
In any case how is our lil govt that can’t even defend the country or keep their own govt data bases secure from rogue AI going to enforce these big fines?
They seem to be devoid of just how incompetent the Australian public now knows they are. And they seem to be devoid of any awareness of how incompetent they actually are too.
I think it’s a bit of a bluff.
Even if the gov threatens to ban the tech cos from Australia I don’t think it would bother them too much. Austrslia is a very small market and the govt would be digging its own grave with the sort of backlash it would get.
It might just get its very own Nepal moment.
The population really didn’t like it when they tried it there.
My greatest concern is that the Prime Minister and the Treasurer seem unfazed by the looming trillion $ budget deficit and the impact it will have on the Sovereign Wealth of the nation.
Add the Hate Crimes Act and the Online Safety Act, it appears to me that the target is One Nation and their destruction, not in the best interests democracy, for the Australian people.
I am disappointed with the performance of the current Prime Minister and I have lost trust in the Australian Government to deliver on any of their promises.
Initially, I just thought they were just incompetent and ignorant. Now the evidence is clear, that their actions were deliberate.
A recent article from Armstrong Economics makes it quite clear, the government policies, actions, legislation and strategies, are deliberately intended to cause a Sovereign Wealth collapse.
God help Australia.
David
FYI
The Light at The End of the Tunnel – It’s Not All Doom & Gloom
Posted Oct 1, 2026 by Martin Armstrong (Armstrong Economics)
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-its-not-all-doom-gloom/
Many people have asked how bad it will get. Will there be civil war and blood in the streets? I do not see a revolution in the United States in the sense that one side is all-powerful and seeks to eradicate its opponent. The risk that the United States will break up, as in Canada, (Australia), and Europe, does not imply outright civil war. The break will likely come first, and it will form along the lines of the LEFT vs. the RIGHT.
The good news is that the fall of the West is inevitable since no political state lasts forever. However, this time it is different, for it is not people rising up against tyranny that produces the blood in the streets as in the American and French Revolutions. Here we are dealing with the facade of Republican forms of government worldwide that have become unresponsive to the people, but are economically crumbling from within at their very foundations.
This is the Sovereign Debt Crisis. The fall of the West can be largely silent, much like the fall of the Soviet Union. As I have said many times, Russia collapsed all by itself because COMMUNISM was not economically sustainable. Here in the West, rising “progressive” movements are also undermining the economy; like the USSR, they are economically inefficient.
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The bottom line, Joe, is the real Law, which is simple.
It is, simply: Do No Harm.
There are a lot of psychopaths out there, Joe, like the ones who work on gain of function research.
One of them is easily identified: Fauci.
Like I said to the Keyboard Warrior a day or two ago about his compassion schtick: If you don’t see the love in what any of our leaders do-and you likely will not-then what they are offering is not anything you will want.
When Albo jibbers on about “a better future”, a couple of things come to mind:
-who’s future? Mine or his;
-if the governments of this country had done their collective job properly, that future would have been realised decades ago.
So it is painfully obvious that The Job has not been done.
George had 12 years as member for Mackay I think before he was gerrymandered out of business.
bot: “He briefly left the LNP and joined One Nation in April 2022, but his parliamentary seat itself ended with the 2022 election.”
I look forward to his return in some form and helping to repeal all the ugly muck they produce in Canberra now.
Elbow reminds me a lot of Bibi, just pushing on through his own wall of lies must be a superhuman effort.
I think Elbow is getting ahead of himself and his demise could potentially be even uglier than his public image.
The censorship is addressing a total hoax as limited access phones of all sorts are available for kids.
The UnaParty has until now done nothing to protect kids from the internet for 30 years.
Unitl the e-Karen showed up to give them their orders from BigTech.
More bullshit: https://nationalfile.com/big-tech/peter-thiel-being-evil-means-youre-competent-and-kind-of-good
Petitions are a danger to those who fill them in by disclosing their names and contact details to those who can use that information to find ways to persecute those same people much like Lavrentie Beria did ; They would find a crime to suit each petitioner with their Marxist Police & Public Servants and Unions who would ban workers from employment throughout Australia ; many brainwashed with Marxism during their secondary school education to then continue their indoctrination in their years of their service for their Marxist superiors to suppress opposition of the proletariat towards a stateless ,classless and moneyless Communist society administered by extremely wealthy people who live in palatial mansions on expensive land over looking the sea where they don’t have to look upon their serfs who are living in ghetto’s close and handy to their workplace to continue their class struggle working towards self emancipation of the working class to share their struggle together in abject misery while their masters bask in their elitism living the life of life of the capitalist pig with their snouts immersed in the spoils of their regime as written by George Orwell’s 1943-44 warning “Animal Farm” on how revolutionary government betray us .
Perhaps this sick pos should be shut down.
George is an idiot. He-and Cairns News’ Editors-should know that petitions have no legal force and are simply a request that can be refused or ignored,
Why you publish his claptrap is beyond me, as the only worth of it is the information as to what is wrong, but not what can be done about it, as in a solution.
The Bill/legislation in question is unlawful in that it is a social engineering initiative for which the corporate government has no Head of Power.
George should be calling out this unlawfulness, and really doing the job.
The sitting Senators should be doing the same, as they are misleading everyone by panel beating Bill, as Malcolm Roberts often does, to defeat another Bill, when he knows full well that he is not going to have the numbers.
If he and his colleagues called out the unlawfulness of a Bill it would stop that Bill in its tracks, as the lawfulness or otherwise of the Bill in question would have to be properly assessed and adjudicated.
That is actually the job oof the Senate.
Fair dinkum, George.
And the other thing about George is that he cannot be contacted, so I can’t give him a rev.
I think that hiding like that is utter cowardice.
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