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Is Australia's eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman-Grant, pushing a leftist agenda? Critics question her office's role in restricting online access for under 16s, while exempting platforms like Blue Sky. Concerns raised over free speech and political bias. #eSafetyCommissioner #JulieInmanGrant #OnlineSafety #FreeSpeech #Censorship
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Wally of the week. We've also uh we're
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also nominating our dear old friend um
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Julie Inman Grant who's regular regular
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on this segment. She loves it. Um why
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would that be this week's what's notable
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this week?
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Well, astonishing decision. She just
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seems to be unashamedly
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pushing her leftist ideology,
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misusing, in my opinion her office to
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push that ideology.
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And this is just another example of it.
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So, if you're under 16, you can't now go
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on X
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from December 10th.
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You can't go on YouTube. You can't go on
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all these social media sites except the
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far-left lunatic asylum that is Blue
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Sky. Blue Sky is somehow exempt. I
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wonder why that is, Julian Grant. Could
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it be because it is a site that has been
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designed pretty much exclusively for the
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leftist lunatic crowd who can't cope
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with any level of uh diversity of
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opinion that exists on other social
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media sites. Even social media sites
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that are still dominated by the left,
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but there is right-wing input, they
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can't cope with that. So, they went off
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and created their own little echo
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chamber. And that echo chamber is exempt
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from this under 16 ban. I mean that is
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again just another clear sign that this
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is a leftist activist who is uh using
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this office to restrict the rights and
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freedoms of Australian people and
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possibly people beyond Australians
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Australia's borders. James which is what
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the US is increasingly worried about
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with her work.
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Well you know I have reported on this
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program about what she has been up to.
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She was involved with that global
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alliance on advertising to try and
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basically take advertising dollars away
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from platforms that uh gave Donald Trump
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a voice uh and was involved with some
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pretty spicy email conversations that
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we've only found out because partially
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because of the US Congress which has
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called her to testify which would be
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pretty interesting if she decides to do
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that or decides not to given that I
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understand that she's still a US citizen
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and would still be bound by the laws of
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being called by Congress.
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Really?
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Wow.
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And two two under 16 year olds are
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taking this to the high court this week.
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So, that'll be fascinating to see how
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Noah and Macy do in the high court.
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That's a fascinating uh you know, young
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kids coming up and saying, "No, no, we
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don't want this ban. It's wrong." And as
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Rita says, the fact that it no one quite
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seems to know the rules, knows who's in
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or who's out, all the power rests with
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the e safety commissioner to say, "Oh, I
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like that or that appears to be the
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case. I like this one, so they're in. I
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don't like that one, so they're out." It
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just feels very wrong.
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And by the way, did you see the
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extraordinary exchange that was going
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around with Andrew Bragg where he uh was
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talking about on social media how
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he didn't think that the uh that the
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YouTube being included was a good idea
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and people were like, "Well, you know,
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you voted for this." Well, I didn't know
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YouTube was going to be involved. I
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mean, it was just such a great
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indictment of our political class that
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nobody knows what they're doing or what
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they're voting for. It's an
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administrative state. We we really are
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blessed with some of the laziest,
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weakest, and frankly thickest
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politicians anywhere in the world. We
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really I mean how can you on a policy
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this crucial, this groundbreaking, you
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know, was heralded as a world first,
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not be across the detail and then be
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shocked that, oh, YouTube's included.
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How many times did we talk about that?
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Yeah,
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it wasn't under reportported, I wouldn't
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have thought. But uh and this is the
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problem we have with these small L
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liberals. This should be a policy that
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the Liberals should have been dead set
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against, but it was one actually that
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they introduced. Remember, this was one
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of Peter Dutton's little uh brilliant
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ideas
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and they've been all over the place on
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this issue with some of them uh quite
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rightly Matt Canavan, Melissa Macintosh,
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and others raising questions about it
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and saying, "Hang on, I don't understand
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how this is all working." And others
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rushing around going, "No, we support
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it. We including Susan Lee." No, we
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support it. We support it. Absolute mess
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because they're not sticking to your
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principles. And Robert Menses would
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never ever agree to this sort of attack
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on free speech. Yes, we got to look
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after our kids. Absolutely crucial. But
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that does not appear to be what's
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happening here. We have a a government
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body picking and choosing what websites
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fall under what censorship rules.