While the Socialists (including the Liberals who were all for censorship) are censoring under-16s on the internet, or trying to censor them, the deranged ideas about sex and race, dreamed up in universities and previously confined to lecture halls and academic papers, are now being taught in kindergartens and primary schools.

It's been a flop. For a reported majority of kids it's business as usual.

So, also as usual, the Albanese Socialist government is going to try to wrench some money out of it with “double-strength penalties after a study showed that children were still accessing ‘prohibited’ apps”.

Typical Albanese. Get it wrong. Blame others. Double down. Try to screw more money out of it. Maximum grab, $99 million. More powers to the American immigrant, $400k a year, government censor - who isn't going to reapply for her job when her contract runs out. Perhaps even she realises what a ballsup the thing has been.

Big-spender of public money and not up to the job of Communications Minister, Anika Wells, thinks that the laws haven't been “strong enough”; not that she and the entire Socialist government are not as smart as school kids.

If, as Albanese claims, his censorship/interference in parenting is “world-leading law”, heaven help the world. Hopefully, the rest of the world (except the UK) will resist the ultra-Socialism and authoritarianism of Australia.

Albanese has said Australia's social media laws will need constant reworking to fully protect children. Why didn't he get it right in the first place if it was worth going!

“Constant” reviewing. Mr. Half-arsed-rush-into-things is at it again.

His American censor of Australian kids has admitted that the whole sorry thing was done “very quickly”.

After the event, Albanese has said “We said we weren’t going to allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good”. What a way to make laws! He even admitted that the rush to censor would mean that the latest ‘reform’ won't be the last.

Four in five under-16s are still using the media that they are not supposed to.

Thanks ttbn for creating this thread. Reading Machiavelli and others you realise that there has always been a battle between the East and West. Marxism seems to be just another example of this. They use ideas to corrupt western culture that they won't accept in their own. Small minded people in a race to the bottom of nihilism.

The IPA describes the Socialist government as desperate, “chasing bad laws with broader and more coercive powers to engage in regulatory fishing expeditions”.

They have had another Bill, passed yesterday, the “Online Safety Amendment (Strengthening Enforcement for the Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2026”. The Coalition and the Greens have called for an enquiry rather than support it in the Senate.

This has angered useless parents who can't control and advise their own children, preferring Big Brother to do their job for them.

The government seems to “be embarrassed that it has not issued a single fine to social media companies”, the IPA spokesman says. And, we all know that huge fines are like huge taxes to the Albanese Socialist government.

Likely to occur is forced over-compliance, leading to blocking lawful users from social media.

The Safety Commissioner has already been caught committing unlawful censorship, in court.

Having failed miserably with under16s online censorship, Comrade Albanese is now trying to meddle in gambling advertising.

He hates the idea of people thinking for themselves or taking responsibility for themselves and their children. He wants to control everyone, just like his mate Xi Jinping. He must be due for a trip to China for a refresher course on authoritarianism.