NANNY STATE: Australia to Introduce Digital ID For Social Media Users

The Australian Federal Government has introduced a bill to make 16 years the minimum age for social media. The controversial bill was introduced in Parliament yesterday (Nov 20) by the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese.

"We want young Australians to have a childhood" said Albanese, speaking in Parliament on Thursday, "we want parents to have peace of mind."

There is an argument for excluding children and young adults from social media, whether it be mental health, bullying, or addiction – all fair reasons to limit time on social media. But this responsibility should fall on the parents of the children not Godless government bureaucrats.

While this bill has been introduced under the guise of protecting children, it was created to serve an entirely different purpose, as the Community Note on Albanese's 𝕏 post indicates:

"This bill will require identity or age verification for all Australians to use social media, including adults. The government confirmed this is the only way to enforce it."

Anyone using social media in Australia will have to surrender personal information to the government. This was even confirmed by the assistant secretary of online safety, Andrew Irwin, in a Senate Committee hearing in early November.

Greens senator David Shoebridge asked whether “everybody” will have to go through the age-checking process as part of testing whether a user is aged 16-plus. “Yes,” replied Andrew Irwin, assistant secretary of online safety at DITRDCA.

“Make no mistake, this is a national age verification system masquerading as being about online safety for children," said Shoebridge.

The Australia Federal Government has a history of bullying social media platforms that have spread information that the government deems "harmful." Earlier this year Australia's online watchdog took 𝕏 to court alleging it failed to remove "extremely violent" videos that showed a Sydney preacher being stabbed. But the case was dropped.

Elon Musk slammed the decision on 𝕏 saying, "Seems like a backdoor way to control access to the Internet by all Australians."

Interesting that these people, who claim to put the innocence of children first, don't have any problem with rampant online pornography, childhood vaccines, or the self-hating education system.

"Youths oppress my people, women rule over them. My people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path." – Isaiah 3:12

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