“They Try To Silence You” - Rita Panahi RIPS Australia’s Social Media Ban For Teens
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the recent ban on kids under 16 having access to social media in Australia and the UK, and the role of the E Safety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, in trying to get the video of a Christian bishop being stabbed in an alleged terror attack removed from the internet.
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What do you think about what happened with Australia, the 4.7 million social media,
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you know, kids under age of 16 that can't have social media?
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Oh, look, we've got something called the eSafety Commissioner.
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She's an American, and she is anti-Trump, anti-conservative.
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To me, she is a massive political activist who is using that position to push her belief system.
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Julie Inman Grant is the name of the East Safety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant.
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She's said some very troubling things over the years about free speech and she's in charge of that.
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So anything she touches, I'm automatically dubious about.
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The Office of the eSafety Commissioner, and she's the eSafety Commissioner,
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was designed to protect children from online predators,
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from what's happening online that can target them.
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It's morphed into something entirely different.
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It's now, she tried to, for example, get the video of a bishop in Australia being stabbed
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She tried to get that removed from the entire internet, not just from Australia, but from
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So Elon Musk actually took her to court and ended up winning on that one.
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She has taken down tweets from breastfeeding advocates saying men can't breastfeed.
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No, when I say she's a political activist, there's no doubt in my mind
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And I think people see, particularly in Europe,
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that can affect America's First Amendment rights by putting controls
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on X via European laws and laws perhaps in Australia
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because if these social media companies don't play ball,
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they can get hit with crippling fines we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars a day
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I think so um that's yeah that's one of the uh things to consider so again this under 16
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social media ban a lot of well-meaning people were in support of it thinking you know
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kids can be free of their devices the online bullying all the perils that come with being
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on social media 24 7 but oh she was the one that said remove the marmari emmanuel stabbing yeah
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syrian that's the bishop yeah well do you know the story behind it what happened he was on this
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podcast came here from australia did the podcast he made a couple comments about my jesus and your
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prophet muhammad yeah and he criticized it the next week he goes back to preach and a 19 year
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old who saw the podcast went and stabbed him in the eye and while he got stabbed in the eye he
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prayed for the kid that stabbed the guy in the eye this is bishop marmari manual that was a miracle
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the fact that a miracle that he didn't die that i think the knife um was a flick knife and it
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didn't come out properly or there was something so he was injured certainly but but he lost one
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of his eyes i mean um and they yeah that was um so this was her doing so she wanted and it did
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come down and it was something that elon musk actually um but if you don't have someone like
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an elon musk then you know that the power to just strike down what you don't like is um yeah and
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everything she has struck down seems to be from one side and so yeah so though well some well
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meaning people were supportive that under 16 i think it's very sinister i think it's got all
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sorts of unintended or perhaps intended consequences that come with it that are no good not i mean to
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have kids not be available on youtube i mean are you kidding me they can access porn sites
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but they can't access x or youtube or instagram i think that's a parental decision not not something
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the government should be enforcing very you our guy in the back right now is probably doing back
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flips umberto is fully on the same page with you on that uh by the way this julie lady that you're
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talking about when she graduated from college she got a job to work at cia and she turned it down
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and then she went and worked at microsoft from 1990 as their government affairs manager and then
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moved to australia to work still for microsoft and then she went into government and then you
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And she was appointed by a terrible, terrible liberal government.
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So in Australia, when we say liberal, we actually mean the right wing.
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So we've got the Liberal National Coalition who's supposed to be the centre-right.
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But often, like I said, they have been liberal in name only
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and they will make decisions like appointing this activist.
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she's now lost there was another woman who took her to court recently just a mum a single mum
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who's had two years of her life uh really taken over by these sort of legal issues because she
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posted something about um this pro-trans activism this radical gender theory that was being taught
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to primary school kids and she made a post about this shouldn't be taught to primary school kids
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and the safety commissioner struck it down said no this post needs to be removed this lady
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fought her one the safety commissioner julian mcgrant then appealed it using taxpayer funds
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and so this woman then had to go to i think the next step was the federal court and she won there
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again so but i mean it takes guts to do that no one wants to be in legal fights the cost the stress
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the whole um but yeah this is um what we're dealing with in australia so you've got the
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first amendment here we don't have it and do you ever get in trouble first because you're pretty
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vocal so yeah they'll come after me with um they try to silence you through different measures
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using lawfare and codes and um the most recent one that was actually chucked out was um someone
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tried to take me to the Australian Human Rights Commission
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for saying something that they deemed to be,
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I think, Islamophobic, which was ridiculous.
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