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1. 2024/05/31

   Stephen Gentle

   @alecm The eSafety Commissioner and her office is a weird one – almost nobody apart from politicians and some random NGOs support it – most of the population here in Australia has literally no idea they exist nor cares about it, and the small minority who do know about them mostly oppose them, since you basically have to be interested in digital rights to realise they exist…

   It's quite ridiculous that this position (an unelected bureaucrat) has a crazy amount of power but basically zero social license – it was just what we call a "thought bubble" (or maybe more aptly a "brain fart") of a conservative prime minister four PMs ago, and unfortunately the Act was expanded with more power under another conservative PM in the previous Government.

   I'm not sure if the current Government has realised how stupid the eSafety Commissioner is making them look (having managed to make themselves and the Government look dumber than Elon Musk in the latest pointless stoush) but this Government has such a lack of courage because they're petrified of the media that they'd never do anything like shut it down for fear of being declared as being "against child safety" or some other nonsense.