Australian Surveillance State | Digital ID Required to Access Internet Social Media

John Gideon Hartnett | BibleScienceForum.com

In Australia we are rapidly being herded towards the authoritarian surveillance state. Like George Orwell wrote about in his classic novel “1984” Australia is progressively being changed into the totalitarian state where everything is controlled by “Big Brother” via collusion between the giant tech companies and the fascistic government, all for you safety and protection of course.

The methods currently being used are the Australian government Digital ID (2024), initially voluntary of course, and the Online Safety Amendment (2024) locking out of under-16 year-olds from the internet to protect them from the harms of social media.

Now it seems that the chatter is saying that it will mean that all people in the country will have to verify their age and that the new Aussie government digital ID is the way to go.

The proposed age verification system for under-16s in Australia may yet to be determined, with the social media ban for children under 16 set to come into effect in December 2025. 

Google’s proposed system of storing passports or driver’s licences in their Google Wallet app may be accessible to adults, but its usefulness in identifying teenagers without ID documents remains unclear.  And why would that even be a discussion point if the insane authoritarian state was not targeting everyone including adults?

The Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS) is running a trial of technology that could be used for checking user ages on social media apps It was supposed to be completed in June.  In those trials the software identified some teens as 30-year-olds and others much older were identified as teens. That was using facial recognition software and AI no doubt. I suspect no biometric age identification system will every be effective. So…they’ll push the government digital ID as the only option.

The Australian Minister for Communications will determine which social media platforms the ban will apply to. The bill aims to protect children under 16, but Google Wallet is primarily an adult-oriented service that most children don’t have access to, creating a paradoxical situation where the very users the legislation aims to identify and protect would be unlikely to have the verification tool being proposed. 

Currently Julie Inman Grant is the Australian eSafety Commissioner (affectionately known as eKaren) heading up Australia’s national independent regulator and educator for online safety.  

The eSafety Commissioner works across Australian Government departments, authorities, and agencies, and collaborates with international stakeholders to enhance online safety. The agency provides resources and tools to manage online safety risks, and administers schemes to address severe online abuse, cyberbullying, non-consensual sharing of intimate images, and harmful online material.  That is according to online government information.

Yet former Liberal Party representative (now in the Libertarian Party who will contest a Senate seat at the next election) Craig Kelly stated on X.com

Get ready, on 10th December all Australians must obey the dictates of eSafety Karen and upload your government approved Digital ID, otherwise you’ll be locked out of your favourite social media account.

Last November the government revealed that everyone will need a digital ID to get on the internet.

So which is it? Will all adults who are awake to the conspiracy, who refuse a digital ID, be locked out of the internet?

The digital ID is a Trojan horse to gain control through total surveillance of all your assets, savings in bank accounts, home titles, vehicles, everything you own. Once they have everything on a digital platform they can control you totally. They’ll have you on the blockchain with digital currencies (CBDCs) that can be switched off depending on what you purchase or what you might say. You don’t think so?

Jack Straw wrote on X.com:

It’s started!

A bank in Australia can now close an account if a customer makes offensive or discriminatory comments on social media.

The National Australia Bank (NAB) has set new criteria for excluding customers. From 1 November 2023, a bank can ban customers from using its services if they negatively impact another person’s emotional well-being.

This includes customers who leave “offensive or discriminatory posts or comments” online or cause “mental harm” on social media. In addition, people who behave in a threatening or abusive way towards others may be excluded from the bank.

“The NAB bank’s updated terms & conditions, displayed on their website state that the NAB bank will “investigate” customers who make “profane, derogatory or discriminatory comments” online using its services.

The new terms state that, in such instances, the bank may suspend, cancel, or deny a customer’s access to their account.

The move follows uproar in the UK where former politician Nigel Farage & Anglican Minister Reverend Richard Fothergill had their accounts closed after their financial institutions took offence to their political views.

In 2022, Canadians participating in trucker protests against Justin Trudeau’s government had their accounts frozen as punishment for opposing vaccine mandates”. – James Macpherson

Australia has no opposition party. It does not matter who you vote for; the Uniparty always wins. It protects itself through the media and money. The delusion of democracy is revealed at every election. No significant opposition can ever be tolerated. The masses watching the idiot box do just as they are programmed to do.

Big Brother and the surveillance state will always progress towards total control. This sure seems to be the way Australia is heading.

The sad part about this is not the loss of freedoms our grandparents fought for but the fact that the sheeple willingly give up their freedom for alleged safety. This picture is one of the sheep being herded onto the truck headed to the abattoir.

Original Article: https://biblescienceforum.com/2025/07/09/australian-surveillance-state-digital-id-required-to-access-internet-social-media/