Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: australia

Australia’s eSafety Chief Pressures Big Tech and AI Firms on Verification, Age Checks

2025/10/28
Preston Byrne: “Australia trying to get those orders out the door before the UK folds and the censorship fightback playbook is finalized”

2025/09/10
Australia to Enforce Mandatory Social Media Age Checks | Australian e-Safety Commissioner bans plotline of Bluey episode

2025/09/10
Australia: “Teen social media trial isn’t testing some ways kids will get around the [social media age verification] ban” | @crikey_news

2025/06/20
Graham Smith (thread on Bluesky) re: judgement on Australian eSafety Commissioner’s office shortcutting of formal process to demand content takedowns from Twitter/X

2025/02/08
“So, in response, many NSA employees were like, ‘No, fuck off, I’ll play Pokémon Go all over base’” | …and yet Australia expects to successfully ban teenagers from social media?

2024/11/30
Honestly thinking that Australia has just done a “Leeroy Jenkins” to Government efforts to “save children from themselves” by banning them from Social Media

2024/11/29
ICYMI: Encrypted messaging app developer moves out of Australia after police visit employee’s home

2024/11/12
Australian Government demands that SOCIAL NETWORKS MUST COLLECT EVEN MORE INFORMATION ABOUT EVERYBODY, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN (HT: @eSafetyOffice)

2024/11/07
From @camwilson on Mastodon | … more evidence that Australia is a land of online safety contrasts

2024/06/25
Australian Safety Exceptionalism: if content might be harmful to Australians it needs to be removed *globally* to protect them

2024/06/05
Google & Apple keeping Reddit & X in app stores despite pornography due to revenue, [Australian] eSafety boss says

2024/05/31