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“They Try To Silence You” - Rita Panahi RIPS Australia’s Social Media Ban For Teens

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Rita Panahi and Patrick Bet-David discuss Australia’s controversial plan to ban social media for kids under 16. They debate government overreach, censorship, and the growing power of regulators controlling online speech and tech platforms.

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0:00.0

What do you think about what happened with Australia, the 4.7 million social media,

0:04.8

the kids under age of 16 that can't have social media?

0:08.0

The UK is doing this now.

0:09.0

UK is doing it as well.

0:10.0

What do you think about that?

0:11.3

Look, we've got something called the East Safety Commissioner.

0:15.0

She is an American and she is anti-Trump, anti-conservative. To me, she is a massive political activist who is

0:31.0

using that position to push her belief system. So Julie Inman Grant is the name of the East Safety Commissioner, Julie

0:41.7

Inman Grant. She's said some very troubling things over the years about free speech. And she's

0:53.1

in charge of that. So anything she touches automatically dubious about,

0:59.6

the office of the e-safety commissioner, and she's the e-safety commissioner, was designed to protect

1:06.5

children from online predators, from what's happening online that can target them. It's morphed

1:15.1

into something entirely different. It's now, she tried to, for example, get the video of a

1:25.6

bishop in Australia being stabbed in an alleged Islamist terror attack.

1:30.6

She tried to get that removed from the entire internet, not just from Australia, but from

1:34.2

around the world.

1:35.1

So Elon Musk actually took her to court and ended up winning on that one.

1:39.8

She has taken down tweets from breastfeeding advocates saying men can't breastfeed.

1:47.0

Stop it.

1:48.0

No, she's, I mean, when I say she's a political activist, there's, there's no doubt in my mind.

1:52.5

She is a political activist.

1:54.0

That's her.

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