Valuetainment - “They Try To Silence You” - Rita Panahi RIPS Australia’s Social Media Ban For Teens

00:00:00.000 What do you think about what happened with Australia, the 4.7 million social media,

00:00:04.840 you know, kids under age of 16 that can't have social media?

00:00:08.000 Yes, the UK is doing this now.

00:00:09.140 The UK is doing it as well.

00:00:10.060 What do you think about that?

00:00:11.340 Oh, look, we've got something called the eSafety Commissioner.

00:00:15.000 She's an American, and she is anti-Trump, anti-conservative.

00:00:26.060 To me, she is a massive political activist who is using that position to push her belief system. 0.99

00:00:34.900 What's her name?

00:00:36.000 Julie Inman Grant is the name of the East Safety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant.

00:00:43.040 She's said some very troubling things over the years about free speech and she's in charge of that.

00:00:54.360 So anything she touches, I'm automatically dubious about.

00:01:00.040 The Office of the eSafety Commissioner, and she's the eSafety Commissioner,

00:01:04.800 was designed to protect children from online predators,

00:01:09.400 from what's happening online that can target them.

00:01:14.480 It's morphed into something entirely different.

00:01:17.660 It's now, she tried to, for example, get the video of a bishop in Australia being stabbed

00:01:27.680 in an alleged Islamist terror attack.

00:01:30.620 She tried to get that removed from the entire internet, not just from Australia, but from

00:01:34.300 around the world.

00:01:35.140 So Elon Musk actually took her to court and ended up winning on that one.

00:01:39.840 She has taken down tweets from breastfeeding advocates saying men can't breastfeed.

00:01:47.040 Stop.

00:01:47.660 No, when I say she's a political activist, there's no doubt in my mind

00:01:52.420 she is a political activist.

00:01:54.040 That's her. 0.88

00:01:55.480 And I think people see, particularly in Europe,

00:02:00.300 that can affect America's First Amendment rights by putting controls

00:02:06.940 on X via European laws and laws perhaps in Australia

00:02:12.020 because if these social media companies don't play ball,

00:02:15.940 they can get hit with crippling fines we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars a day

00:02:22.060 I think so um that's yeah that's one of the uh things to consider so again this under 16

00:02:31.580 social media ban a lot of well-meaning people were in support of it thinking you know

00:02:37.560 kids can be free of their devices the online bullying all the perils that come with being

00:02:45.200 on social media 24 7 but oh she was the one that said remove the marmari emmanuel stabbing yeah

00:02:52.520 syrian that's the bishop yeah well do you know the story behind it what happened he was on this

00:02:57.820 podcast came here from australia did the podcast he made a couple comments about my jesus and your

00:03:06.560 prophet muhammad yeah and he criticized it the next week he goes back to preach and a 19 year

00:03:12.900 old who saw the podcast went and stabbed him in the eye and while he got stabbed in the eye he

00:03:17.720 prayed for the kid that stabbed the guy in the eye this is bishop marmari manual that was a miracle

00:03:23.040 the fact that a miracle that he didn't die that i think the knife um was a flick knife and it

00:03:29.220 didn't come out properly or there was something so he was injured certainly but but he lost one

00:03:33.840 of his eyes i mean um and they yeah that was um so this was her doing so she wanted and it did

00:03:42.740 come down and it was something that elon musk actually um but if you don't have someone like

00:03:49.720 an elon musk then you know that the power to just strike down what you don't like is um yeah and

00:03:59.040 everything she has struck down seems to be from one side and so yeah so though well some well

00:04:05.860 meaning people were supportive that under 16 i think it's very sinister i think it's got all

00:04:11.080 sorts of unintended or perhaps intended consequences that come with it that are no good not i mean to

00:04:17.080 have kids not be available on youtube i mean are you kidding me they can access porn sites

00:04:22.600 but they can't access x or youtube or instagram i think that's a parental decision not not something

00:04:30.140 the government should be enforcing very you our guy in the back right now is probably doing back

00:04:35.440 flips umberto is fully on the same page with you on that uh by the way this julie lady that you're

00:04:42.460 talking about when she graduated from college she got a job to work at cia and she turned it down

00:04:47.300 and then she went and worked at microsoft from 1990 as their government affairs manager and then

00:04:53.820 moved to australia to work still for microsoft and then she went into government and then you

00:04:59.420 And she was appointed by a terrible, terrible liberal government.

00:05:05.820 So in Australia, when we say liberal, we actually mean the right wing.

00:05:10.340 So it's the opposite to here.

00:05:12.040 So we've got the Liberal National Coalition who's supposed to be the centre-right.

00:05:17.020 But often, like I said, they have been liberal in name only

00:05:21.580 and they will make decisions like appointing this activist.

00:05:26.680 And I think it's been absolutely disastrous.

00:05:29.420 she's now lost there was another woman who took her to court recently just a mum a single mum 0.77

00:05:35.780 who's had two years of her life uh really taken over by these sort of legal issues because she

00:05:43.500 posted something about um this pro-trans activism this radical gender theory that was being taught

00:05:51.680 to primary school kids and she made a post about this shouldn't be taught to primary school kids

00:05:56.740 and the safety commissioner struck it down said no this post needs to be removed this lady

00:06:03.520 fought her one the safety commissioner julian mcgrant then appealed it using taxpayer funds

00:06:10.820 and so this woman then had to go to i think the next step was the federal court and she won there 1.00

00:06:17.440 again so but i mean it takes guts to do that no one wants to be in legal fights the cost the stress

00:06:25.220 the whole um but yeah this is um what we're dealing with in australia so you've got the

00:06:31.480 first amendment here we don't have it and do you ever get in trouble first because you're pretty

00:06:36.400 vocal so yeah they'll come after me with um they try to silence you through different measures

00:06:44.260 using lawfare and codes and um the most recent one that was actually chucked out was um someone

00:06:53.480 tried to take me to the Australian Human Rights Commission

00:06:55.800 for saying something that they deemed to be, 0.96

00:06:57.840 I think, Islamophobic, which was ridiculous. 0.88

00:07:00.780 It was post-October 7th. 0.95

00:07:02.280 So, yeah, good luck to them.

00:07:07.080 But the lawfare is an issue.

00:07:09.660 For some of you that are watching it that are fans,

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00:07:12.660 So if you want to Minecta and ask her questions, you can.

00:07:15.160 I think her QR code is going to be somewhere below here.

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Valuetainment - March 12, 2026

“They Try To Silence You” - Rita Panahi RIPS Australia’s Social Media Ban For Teens

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