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# It Really Is Just About Censorship
- URL: https://goodoil.news/it-really-is-just-about-censorship/
- Published: 2026-09-24T23:30:55.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-24T23:30:55.000Z
- Description: Albanese let the cat out of the bag in New York.
- Author: Lushington Brady
- Tags: AUS Politics, Censorship

Whenever someone bleats, “Won’t somebody please think of the children?” your bullshit shields should be at maximum strength. As **Michael Reagan** once wrote, “‘Think of the children’ is almost always an emotional and irrational appeal made in desperation by those who don’t have a reasonable or legitimate argument. Invoking ‘the children’ is pure BS.”

But that doesn’t stop mendacious politicians and activists from using children as their political voodoo dollies at the slightest opportunity. Whether it’s the violent far-left groomers of Socialist Alternative wheeling out a clique of pubescent Red Guards to scream murder (literally) at a centre-right bogey-woman, or Albo and his eKaren using ‘the children’ as a smokescreen for their attempt to erect a Great Australian Firewall and censor the internet.

**Anthony Albanese** was knocked back by the parliament when he first tried to impose digital censorship on Australian adults. So, he’s trying it on again by deceit: lying, as they always do, that it’s about ‘the children’. This week, the lie was exposed by Albanese himself, bragging at a globalist knees-up in New York.

Our intrepid prime minister, flush with the sense that he is someone important, let slip that his grandly titled ‘Digital Duty of Care’ is nothing more than a back-door resurrection of his failed Misinformation and Disinformation Bill. Back home, his Minister for Censorship, when not billing taxpayers for sporting jaunts, insisted with a straight face that the scheme had nought to do with policing opinions. Yet abroad, safely cocooned among his globalist chums, Albo let the cat out of the silk-lined bag.

As the formidable **Pauline Hanson** rightly noted, the regime’s panic is palpable:

> [Most revealing of all](https://x.com/PaulineHansonOz/status/2102721038127902803?ref=goodoil.news), Albanese has explicitly linked the need for new censorship powers to the rise of One Nation, declaring that ‘People are moving away from the centre and more and more to the extremes’. In other words, Australians are abandoning Labor in growing numbers, rejecting the political establishment, and Labor’s response is not to listen to them, but to seek new powers to police online debate and suppress criticism.

Quite so. When the managerial elite find themselves haemorrhaging support over cost-of-living squalor, runaway energy tariffs and mass migration misadventures, they do not repent – they reach for the jackboot.

Beneath the sanctimonious humbug of child protection lies an expandable administrative leviathan. The legislation crafts a slippery slope where a minister can unilaterally expand definitions of ‘harmful’ conduct without parliamentary assent or judicial oversight. It is not merely a matter of locking away true criminal depravity: it is an ideological sieve designed to catch anything deemed hostile to elite orthodoxy.

Enter the Free Speech Union of Australia, whose recent submission lays bare the farcical mechanics of this proposed digital panopticon. With millions of posts flooding platforms daily, any compliance scheme must inevitably rely on artificial intelligence – or what the FSU cleverly operationalised as the ‘Alborithm’.

The results of testing such automated arbiters are predictably disastrous for public discourse. As the FSU submission warns:

> [Applying the Alborithm](https://x.com/FSUofAustralia/status/2102541725210460445?ref=goodoil.news), we found that an extensive range of political speech would be censored for adults. Some notable examples include: Political speeches in parliament, including by Senators **Faruqi** and **Lambie**; Cartoons and satire, including political speeches and works by well-known comedians; Content which the eSafety Commissioner previously tried to unlawfully censor; News reports and political commentary.

Think upon the absurdity. Automated filters cannot distinguish between a journalist reporting on violence and a perpetrator committing it, nor can they parse the subtle ironies of satire. Parliamentary debate, wherein politicians frequently quote unsavoury language to denounce it, would instantly trip the censor-ware tripwires.

The FSU rightly points out that this scheme mirrors the disastrous overreaches seen under the United Kingdom’s draconian internet laws, trampling merrily over the implied freedom of political communication. It is an insult to an adult populace, treating free citizens like recalcitrant toddlers needing digital nursemaids in Canberra.

Prime Minister Albanese would do well to cease his globetrotting grandstand performances, ditch this Trojan horse of a censorship bill and return home to face the music of his own administration’s manifold failures. The Australian internet does not require a Canberra-run filter bubble – it requires liberty.

But if Albo allows that, we might start getting ideas.

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