As expected, without a public mandate or any sort of proper consultation, Australia has passed what is being described as the world’s first legislation to ban children from social media.

Which is not quite true. Some of our more tyrannical neighbours have tried similar measures but have not been able to implement bans without intrusive government-led ID systems. This will be the problem facing our government in 2026.

But don’t worry, for the election coming up, Labor and Liberal can parade around the campaign trail saying they have protected the nation’s children.

The actual implementation and all the nasty fallout that goes with it will be someone else’s problem, Labor presumes, but they will certainly burn through a fortune in public money before they work that out.

The result, thanks to the least liberal Liberal Party to walk the Earth, means that Australia’s digital landscape is the most restrictive in the Western World.

The legislation was passed in a panic by a majority of technologically hopeless Senators who have barely touched social media and have no real knowledge of the modern world. Their young staffers use social media on their behalf and so, with no understanding of the digital world, they have voted to constrain it. What happened to transparency and consultation, I wonder?

Captured by the ‘protect children’ lie or, worse, voting in full knowledge that they would be expanding the Digital ID and integrated biometric systems into social media, these politicians have acted selfishly, rashly, and against the interests of the public.

It is understandable that a class of people, the political class, would want to do everything possible to shut social media up. Social media picks apart their policies, embarrasses them, magnifies their mistakes, and mocks their grand ideas. Having never used it for anything more than a few press releases, they view it as a sewer instead of the single most important technological advancement of our lifetime.

This is because politicians, rarely, value free speech. They want to talk and you, the peasants, you will listen and you will like it.

Donald Trump’s victory is the beginning of a conservative revolution in America. Young people are rejecting Woke in droves. They are doing this because conservatism is thriving on social media, proving once again that the free marketplace of ideas suffocates propaganda and strangles the programmed responses pushed onto our kids in school. Long-form podcasts like Joe Rogan, who was only yesterday derided by the ABC Chief for preying on viewers (despite him never having watched the show), have given children a chance to hear arguments at length and decide for themselves what sort of ideological world they prefer.

Given that the Liberals are just as wet, soggy, and ideologically broken as their Labor counterparts, and have their feet just as deeply embedded in the Climate Change cult, it is no surprise that they would fear a revolution against Woke.

And so it is that the process of trying to ban Facebook (where kids share their photos with grandparents and long-lost friends), Instagram (where they share holiday snaps), and TikTok (which has much bigger problems and should have been looked at for matters unrelated to kids), will commence.

What will become of the gaming world where almost every modern game has an inbuilt chat system? Will they pull those from the market? No, because they excluded them, meaning any potential bullies will simply switch platforms. What about all the artistic communities online, are they to go? What about the sick kids in hospital or those who are separated from their loved ones? Gone as well?

Will any of this stop kids using good old text messaging to bully their school peers?

Of course not. Because this was never about stopping school bullies even if that was the emotional blackmail trotted out to the press.

If the solution does not fit the problem, we can safely assume that the problem is a veneer manufactured to solve a different problem that the government was trying to conceal. In this case, anonymity.

Adults will see the repercussions of this law very soon and they should remember exactly who to punish at the ballot box.

Governments will continue to overreach until people stop voting for those who approve it. Until then, they will find more ways to control us, particularly if led by a socialist or a former police officer.

34 Senators voted in favour, 19 against.

The House of Representatives passed it 102, to 13.

It returns to the House of Representatives where it was rushed through earlier with a huge majority of power-hungry idiots, so we can be sure it will face no opposition.

Michelle Rowland, the Minister for Communications, says that this will ‘keep children safe’. It will do no such thing and, as it fails immediately, we can expect the government to start expanding the law into nastier and more insidious versions. They will chase the unattainable ‘child safety’ false flag until the digital realm is under the control of unelected safety bodies. By that point, ‘child safety’ will have been forgotten, replaced by ‘digital safety’ which was the preferred phrase in the Digital ID discussion.

Children will keep finding ways to bully each other in a society that has forgotten personal responsibility, outsourced parenting, and erased the notion of discipline.

Instead, we will be bullied relentlessly by our government if we step out of line and criticise their policies.

‘Platforms now have a social responsibility to ensure the safety of our kids is a priority for them,’ said the Prime Minister, no doubt salivating over the enormous fines he hopes to extract to fill his black-hole of a Treasury having blown our cash on Covid and Net Zero.

It is a shame the government does not feel this way about the state governments and their Premiers taking responsibility for the education system that has created the school bullies in the first place. Where is the admission of guilt from the educators that their lack of control over classrooms and inability to punish children who are cruel to each other has allowed school arguments to leak through social media into the home?

Elon Musk is right when he said, ‘Seems like a backdoor way to control access to the internet by all Australians…’

You need an ID to drive and to travel, but those who require an ID to speak freely have crossed a line.

We must praise Senators Matt Canavan and Alex Antic for crossing the floor.

They are the only conservatives who deserve the blue ribbon.