Albanese’s Oppressive Digital Duty of Care are akin to Radical Blasphemy laws

The PM is Emulating the IRGC and Supreme Leader of Iran

Peter Arthur

Anthony Albanese at the 2026 Australian Labor Party National Conference at the Adelaide Convention Centre. By Yu Chu Chin – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

The latest revelations are devastatingly damaging to the Australian Prime Minister, Communications Minister and Labor

The comprehensive, documented, and devastating account of the contradiction at the heart of the Digital Duty of Care are akin to Blasphemy laws. Albanese has emmulated the cesnorship adopted by the Supreme Leader and IRGC in Iran to oppress their people.

The Central Contradiction, Now are on the Public Record

The media articles lay out the sequence with precision:

• 9 September: Anika Wells told national television: “No, this isn’t about misinformation.” She said it was about “basic safety standards.”
• 22 September: Anthony Albanese told the UN that the law is needed because of “misinformation, disinformation” and because people are “moving away from the centre and more and more to the extremes.”

His words are a direct contradiction to his own Minister—13 days apart, on the same policy, before the same public. This is what Albanese does when his back against the wall and unable to attract voters back to Labor. 

HE PLAYS DIRTY BECAUSE HE IS DIRTY

 

The Record That Damns The DEVIOUS ALBANESE LABOR PARTY 

This is the clearest expression of the lie:

· Wells, 9 Sep: “this isn’t about misinformation”-Albanese at the UN, 22 Sep: the law answers “misinformation, disinformation”

· Wells, 9 Sep: “This is not about the content.”-Albanese at the UN: people are “moving away from the centre”

· Wells, 9 Sep: “basic safety standards” for children-Albanese at the UN: “whilst today we’re concentrating on the impact on children”, it affects “our entire society”

· Albanese: “It’s not about giving government control”-Albanese at the UN: the law is an “inevitable next stage” because “people are moving away from the centre”

The Public are not fooled, they know this is not a minor misunderstanding, or a slip of the tongue. This is a documented, deliberate deception of the Australian people by the ALBANESE GOVERNMENT.

 

The Powers Albanese deliberately tried Lied About

Section 25C(2) gives the Minister direct authority to add any material or conduct she “is satisfied may cause serious harm” to the list platforms must protect every adult from.

Wells has already admitted: “Those calls would ultimately be, I guess, made by me.”

Her powers are Dictatorial:

• Add any material she “is satisfied may cause serious harm” to the list platforms must protect every adult from — Section 25C(2)
• Add any material to the list children must be protected from — Section 25D(2)
• Declare any app feature harmful to behaviour — Section 25G(2)
• Decide which services count as social media — Section 25B(2)
• Exempt any service she decides poses “little risk” — Section 25A(3)
• Fine a platform that doesn’t comply — Up to $109.2 million

These are unprecedented powers. And they were hidden behind a child safety pitch.

 

The Free Speech Union Test

The Free Speech Union of Australia put the draft legislation to the test. They fed real Australian content to an AI moderator using the bill’s exact list of harms for adults.

What was flagged as harmful is devastatingly shocking?

• Senator Jacqui Lambie’s speech in Parliament — flagged as “retaliatory threat to expose personal information”
• Senator Mehreen Faruqi’s speech in Parliament — flagged as “repetition of slogan that led to arrests may be interpreted as encouraging criminal offence or supporting terrorism”
• News footage of the Wakeley church stabbing — flagged as “real-world graphic knife violence”
• A cartoon satire of the eSafety Commissioner — flagged as “menacing or harassing conduct”
• Drew Pavlou’s NDIS fraud reporting — flagged as targeting an identifiable person
• A documentary on Aboriginal hunting — flagged as “instructional depiction of weapon manufacture”

 

Parliamentary speeches were flagged as harmful. Political satire was flagged as harmful. Journalism was flagged as harmful.

The Free Speech Union’s verdict on what the bill will do in practice is blunt:

The bill “plainly does not comply with the implied freedom of political communication” and should be scrapped.

 

Labor’s Timeline of Deception

DATE	EVENT
13 Nov 2024	Michelle Rowland announces a digital duty of care for platforms
24 Nov 2024	Labor dumps its Misinformation and Disinformation Bill — couldn’t pass the Senate
8 Sep 2026	Albanese and Wells release the draft bill, branded “My Feed My Way”
9 Sep 2026	Wells tells national television: “it isn’t about misinformation”
22 Sep 2026, midday	Public feedback closes
22 Sep 2026, New York	Albanese tells the UN the law answers “misinformation, disinformation” and polarisation
October 2026	Labor plans to put the bill to parliament

 

This is the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill by the back door. They dumped it in 2024 because they couldn’t pass it. They rebranded it as “child safety” in 2026.

Albanese and his minister have lied to the public for 13 days while the consultation was open.

Then Albanese inadvertently revealed the truth to the world at the UN, after the consultation had closed.

“This is what governments do when they are losing the argument. When Labor stops defending its record, it begins searching for mechanisms to control the public conversation.”

She called it “Orwellian machinery” before the draft text was even public.

The Toxic Australian Greens senator David Shoebridge conceded that a minister could absolutely use these broad powers to reach political messaging. The Greens knew and Supported it. It was specifically designed to Silence and Stop the rise of One Nation – It is a POLITICAL WEAPON

The damage is done, the consultation is closed. the bill goes to parliament in October. And Labor and the Greens have the numbers to force it through.

 The only things that can stop it now are:

1. The Senate — if the Coalition and crossbench hold firm
2. The High Court — if the bill is challenged it will be struck down
3. The people — The public can totally abandon Labor and the Greens irrespective of the Bill and demand it be repealed after Labor is tossed out.

 

Albanese’s Digital Duty of Care Bill is far more dangerous than any “blasphemy laws” – which are limited to insults against God or religious doctrine.

Albanese has used functional logic of blasphemy laws to create a state-enforced category of “harmful” speech that the Minister alone defines, and has powers to suppress and prohibit.

Albanese’s dictatorship allows the state to decide  what speech is permissible, and enforces that decision through severe and brutal penalties.

The critical threat to free speech is Section 25C(2) of the exposure draft, which grants the Minister full and sole power to “determine any material or conduct that is deemed “may cause serious harm” .

A labor minister will have an open-ended grant of authority to expand the definition of “harm” at will at any time.

The Carnegie Trust, the very organization that helped develop the duty-of-care framework warned, the draft “gives too many powers” for the minister and lacks the necessary separation of powers between the executive and a regulator.

Section 25C allows the Minister to designate anything as a “serious harm” through a legislative instrument. This means:

• No new legislation is required to expand the scope of censorship.
• No parliamentary vote is needed.
• The Minister’s subjective satisfaction is the only standard.

 

The Prime Minister lied to the Australian Public but confirmed on the world stage; “misinformation, disinformation” and “polarisation” are exactly the harms this law is meant to address. He let the cat out of the back, directly contradicted Anika Wells’s claim the bill “isn’t about misinformation”.

 Blasphemy laws are historically adopted by evil extremist authoritarian entities to strip Freedoms:

1. Criminalizing speech that violates it.
2. Enforcing that prohibition through state power.

 

The Digital Duty of Care operates by:

1. Defining a secular orthodoxy (“safety,” “harm,” “misinformation”).
2. Empowering the Minister to designate speech that violates it.
3. Enforcing that designation through $109.2 million fines on platforms .

 

The difference is the state’s conception of a “safe” and “centred” public sphere.

The Prime Minister assured the public the law is “not about censorship, he claimed it’s about giving people control”. We now know it does the total opposite- People have no control, they are controlled by a labor government. The clear intent is to oppress their political opponents – One Nation – The Coalition – independent Conservatives;

Prime Minister Albanese is a compulsive habitual liar- he is totally dishonest – he is a threat to Democracy, freedom of political affiliation and expression.

When that power is vested in a single Minister, without parliamentary approval, it is arbitrary censorship.

THE PUBLIC HAS THE POWER – The laws are about the Ballot box > DO NOT VOTE LABOR or GREENS –  PUNISH THEM – BURY THEM – PROTECT YOUR FREEDOMS – WE Are not A DICTATORSHIP

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