alecmuffett is spot on here and I am grateful to him for making noise about this. The Online Safety Act is a mere prelude to the real goal: building on 20 years of CleanFeed to implement a central, government controlled firewall.

The risks of such technology are grave. It is hard enough, for example, running a distributed national police service while keeping a lid on corruption, miscarriages of justice, and incompetence. Willfully using technology to scale up human effects will risk amplifying bad actors to a national scale.