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Australia’s Online Censorship Bill Moves To Senate With Age-Gating Fears Intact
The amendments were sold as polish, but the bill is starting to look more like infrastructure for universal age checks.
Australian Meta Lawsuit Puts Online Privacy at Risk
Meta’s design choices are on trial, along with the increasingly popular idea that identity checks are the cure.
Australia’s Social Media Age Verification Law Demands Aren't Working, So It’s Going to Court
The teenagers have outlasted the ban, the fines, and the AI. Every adult in Australia may be the next to show ID if the government gets its way.
Albanese Blames Social Media After MP Attack
A familiar political reflex arrives before the investigation has found its footing.
Every Bad Idea Australia Ever Had About the Internet, Now in One Bill
A law sold as upstream prevention could send age checks, scanning, and speech controls downstream.
Australian Government Staffer Cites Execution Video To Defend Censorship Bill
Once the state can decide what adults may see, the definition of harmful material rarely stays put.
Government-Funded Group Helped Push Australia’s Digital Censorship Bill
The campaign’s grassroots story comes with a remarkably well-watered government garden.
The US Has a Message for Australia’s Internet Regulators: Back Off
The dispute is over who gets to decide what the public may see.
X Wins Australian Case Over Private Message Scanning Rule
"eSafety" Commissioner Julie Inman Grant loses bid to control X under two frameworks.
Australia’s Top Censor Wants Power Over the “Ratio”
Australia eSafety Commissioner wants notification power to punish online pile-ons as X Corp keeps winning in court.
Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Failed. the Government’s Fix Is to Double the Fines
The fines just doubled for a law that eighty-five percent of Australian teenagers already ignore.
Australia’s “eSafety” Commissioner Threatens App Stores Over AI Age Verification Deadline
The same government that already bars under-16s from social media is now coming for AI chatbots, app stores, and search engines.
