I agree with many of your logical points.
It feels like the same kind of argument I've had with people who from time to time tried to convince me the world was flat.
- And I'd say what about the tides, what about the shape of the moon, and wouldn't all the worlds airlines pilots have to be in on it and keep the secret?
- But logic never gets in the way of their flat earth beliefs.

I'm not saying I think the politicians are in on a deliberate conspiracy.
I'd probably argue the pollies are merely branch managers and its probably sold to them as being for the protection of kids, I doubt they know any better.

I've always said from the start that everyone will have to provide ID to use social media with these policies, it's all just slowly taking us all to digital ID. You can bet the government and/or intelligence agencies want real time access to everything we say and do, and to be able to access and collate all an individuals life data from one place.

If it had nothing to do with protecting kids and was done at the advice of intelligence agencies i.e 5 eyes, would Albo tell us?
- Doubtful.

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Digital ID - What It Is and How It Works
http://institute.global/digital-id-what-is-it-and-how-it-works

"Digital-ID systems improve governance, facilitate greater inclusion, fuel economic growth and help governments achieve their core goals. Far from enabling greater surveillance, digital IDs can actually make information more secure. Beyond their public-sector benefits, they also allow citizens to interact more safely and smoothly with private-sector institutions. They are a critical component of a reimagined state fit for the 21st century.

Safely storing identifying information in a digital wallet enables individuals to securely verify their identity and other attributes in an interoperable manner that streamlines processes, reduces fraud and ensures that services reach those who need them most. From accessing benefits to applying for jobs, the potential applications for these verifiable credentials are enormous."

TBI feels like Clinton Foundation reinvented.

TBI funded by Billionaire Larry Ellis, who is connected to CIA
http://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/blair-and-the-billionaire/
Ellison invested $130 million in the TBI between 2021 and 2023, with a further $218 million pledged since then. The scale of funding took the TBI from a headcount of 200 to approaching 1,000. Blair himself takes no salary from TBI but over this time the institute has been able to recruit from bluechip firms like McKinsey and Silicon Valley giants Meta. In 2018 before the Oracle founder’s funding surge, TBI’s best-paid director earned $400,000. In 2023, the last year where accounts are available, the top earner took home $1.26 million.

http://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/26/tony-blair-larry-ellison-ai-influence-nhs-data/

Larry Ellison co-founded and owns a majority stake in Oracle, making him the largest shareholder of the software giant. He serves as the Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of the company, which he started in 1977 and grew into a dominant force in the database and cloud computing markets.

What is the relationship between Oracle and CIA?
They developed a company called Software Development Laboratories (SDL) whose main product was the Oracle database, named after a project they were asked to develop for the US Central Intelligence Agency.

"Show me the man and I'll find you the crime."

Lavrentiy Beria

JD would have you believe it benign and beneficial. It isn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho8Tde3vhBQ

Hi Fester, no it's not is it.

JD's worldview seems to focus on inclusion.
'Inclusion doesn’t cause disunity. Exclusion does.'

My worldview maybe seems to focus more on 'The causes (and consequences) of conflict'.

Someone once said that getting the ethnic mix right is like making concrete.
Too much of one or the other ingredient, and the concrete will be either too soft or too brittle.

Ethnic mixing is ridiculous and dangerous. People seem to have forgotten, or never heard of, natural law, and the fact that different people were put in different places around the world from the very beginning. It's only Godless meddlers and self-servers who have altered the perfectly good arrangement.

I know. I know. There's little point in telling numpties this when it's far too late to stop it, even if there was a will to do so.

Hi AC,

I think of the matter more generally. Recent calls for censorship came from claims of misinformation campaigns, as per the Voice referendum defeat and more recently the slow pace in achieving net zero. Long ago East Germany blamed its economic under-performance on a misinformation campaign by "the west". It used this as justification for establishing the Stasi, much to the relief of unemployed Gestapo agents who had been twiddling their thumbs since Hitler's downfall.

Censorship does have a place protecting the vulnerable, but the government's push for censorship has been more a matter of suppressing public criticism and scrutiny of its policy, which is undemocratic.