Australia’s e-Karen is at it again, throwing her weight around and trying to bully truth-tellers into silence. Once again, she is making threats and weaponising her unelected power, not to prevent ‘misinformation’, but to silence factual information that doesn’t suit her agenda. In this case, protecting creepy perverts in positions of power.
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has threatened social media giant X with a $910,000 fine if it does not immediately remove a shared article by a US-based feminist that raised concerns about an Australian Medical Association Victoria staff member who has regularly generated and posted extreme transgender pornography in public online forums.
Take careful note of that: nothing Genevieve Gluck has done is illegal. She hasn’t hacked private information. All she’s done is highlight publicly available information. That the information is enough to make anyone’s skin crawl is kind of the point.
Posted extreme transgender pornography in public online forums. In other words, where anyone, including children, can see them. If eKaren really is so passionate about protecting children from publicly available online porn, why is she so passionately defending a pornographer who makes publicly available online porn?
[Genevieve Gluck] wrote a Substack post in 2024 linked on X regarding AMA Victoria’s employment of a staff member, entitled “Trans-Identified Male Hired by Australian Medical Association Sharing Self-Made BDSM Porn on Social Media”.
The employee – whom the Australian has chosen not to name – remains in the role, which involves liaising with AHPRA and medical colleges.
The eSafety Commissioner on Tuesday wrote to Elon Musk-owned social media giant X, citing a complaint from the employee that claims Ms Gluck’s post contravenes the Online Safety Act, in that it constitutes “serious cyber-abuse meant to cause physical or psychological harm, surpassing mere offence”.
The post featured screenshots of graphic self-made pornography and lewd comments the employee had publicly posted on sites including OnlyFans, FetLife and X.
Cartoonist Johannes Leak perfectly summed up the irony here:
This is all just another day at the office for e-Karen, though. She has run a witch-hunt against anyone who speaks out against the troons and lost every one, which is all very easy to do when the taxpayer foots the bill.
Ms Gluck used male pronouns to refer to the biological male, who identifies as a trans woman, and questioned the employee’s fitness for the AMA Victoria role.
In other words, she told the truth. He is a male. The fact that he publicly posts extreme self-made pornography is on him.
That the commissioner will almost certainly lose yet another case is entirely beside the point. The process is the punishment. Dragging X through tribunals, forcing lawyers to burn hours and extracting compliance costs is the real victory. X pays in time and money. e-Karen pays nothing. Her salary is guaranteed, her office is funded by the public purse and every failed crusade is simply written off as someone else’s problem.
The pattern is now wearisomely familiar. Last year both X and Canadian activist “Billboard Chris” Elston won their Administrative Review Tribunal cases after the commissioner ordered the removal of a post that merely “misgendered” (in other words, correctly gendered) a former ACON official and noted his private social-media activity. In February, the Full Federal Court ruled for children’s rights activist Celine Baumgarten, finding the commissioner had improperly issued a take-down notice over a post about a “queer club” at a Melbourne primary school. The court rejected the remarkable claim that because the notice was “informal”, and technically beyond power, it somehow escaped judicial scrutiny.
The judges held that a government official cannot purport to exercise power, achieve a coercive result, and then claim immunity from review because they acted outside their power.
Absolute chutzpah. Even when found to have acted illegally, the commissioner’s office tries to argue that the very illegality absolves it of responsibility. Free Speech Union director Reuben Kirkham, who has now beaten her repeatedly, put it plainly:
“Despite heavy criticism from the Chief Justice of the Federal Court in Celine Baumgarten’s case in relation to her inappropriate litigation conduct and practices, the commissioner appears not to have learned and continues to waste public money.”
The Chief Justice has missed the point: she has learned. She’s learned that she can do whatever she wants and remain absolutely untouchable. Not just while Labor are in power, either: her job was created by the coalition and who wants to take bets that they’d back her to the hilt, too?
Because her role has never been about ‘safety’, it’s only ever been about narrative reinforcement.
