American political commentator, Michael Shellenberger, has described Albanese's Digital Duty of Care legislation as a “globalist conspiracy”.

He says Australia is being used as a “testing ground before the laws could be rolled out in other countries”.

The proposed use of ‘sock puppets’ would constitute international warfare hiding behind anonymous accounts. Shellenberger finds this bizarre, given that the same Albanese government wanted to ban anonymous accounts two years ago.

The project is a testing ground to see what places like America, Canada and Europe - and places whose politicians don't like being criticised - think of the idea.