That's disappointing, because he does not even need to subscribe to feminism to notice the fallacy in this post, and countering this kind of fallacy is the whole point of triggernometry.
> @joanneharris_: 🧵 If you haven’t read the full #DeemingvPesutto judgement, I’d highly recommend doing so! Here’s a thread with a few of my favourite parts - starting with this: “It is not true to say that...…
- eSafety’s investigations team was very understaffed and not able to always respond in time (which is the opposite of what they say). So they don't even effectively work for complainants.
In general, what's going on is low-level eSafety staff are basically sending in hundreds of informal takedown notices to social media providers without even considering whether the post in question counts as legally protected political communication. They are not sure what their specific legal authority is for doing this is, and worst still, no-one can appeal.
Remarkably, this is likely to be an ultra vires (unlawful) process that has been going on within the eSafety Commissioner's office.
Celine Baumgarten's (🙋♀️) hearing against the eSafety Commissioner is on today. The hearing so far has been a revelation, it exposes that the Commissioner is systematically acting beyond her legal authority. Here are the key admissions that arose from the cross-examination of a witness (who is a 'senior lawyer' within the organisation) and led the team who investigated all the adult cyber abuse complaints:
- That eSafety sends hundreds of informal takedown notices to social media providers every year and only 3 or 4 formal ones (under the relevant scheme). - There is no formal legal authority for these informal notices and they are often issued by junior staff (as opposed to the formal notices, which only senior staff can issue). - eSafety staff have a very poor understanding of the formal legal delegations that they have, or that are needed, for issuing these notices. - In issuing these notices, eSafety staff DO NOT expressly consider Australians implied right of political communication! - The informal takedown notices are being used to censor posts that do not meet the bar for formal notices. - The original poster has no power to appeal the decision. - The witness admitted that they don’t routinely tell social media companies that they are not formal removal notices, and that X probably interprets the informal takedown notices as legal requests to take down things as that is the purpose of the portal! - The eSafety Commissioner is arguably misleading the social media providers and using the 'aura of its authority' to vaguely pressure social media companies into thinking they have to take posts down.
“I’ve tried to refer puberty blockers to a Parliamentary inquiry on five occasions. Each and every time it’s been blocked by Labor, the Greens, cross benchers and some of the Coalition. Why? I strongly suspect they’re blocking it because they know what’s being done to our kids by these gender clinics is indefensible.
“This issue isn’t going away. Those who refuse to face it and refuse to act in the best interests of Australian children will be held accountable in the long run.”
MEDIA RELEASE | "Unacceptable safety risk” – Australia must ban puberty blockers for children
Australia should immediately ban the use of puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria after a United Kingdom panel of medical experts found they posed an “unacceptable safety risk”.
One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said the Albanese Labor government must no longer ignore the growing evidence of risks to Australian children being treated with puberty blockers.
“It is sickening that Anthony Albanese places more importance on promoting intolerant, hateful gender ideology than he does on children’s safety,” Senator Hanson said.
“The United Kingdom Labour government has been at the forefront with this issue, listening to the clinicians and other experts instead of ideologues and politicians, and banning puberty blockers from anyone under 18 indefinitely after the previous government’s temporary ban.
“This followed a targeted review by the UK’s independent Commission on Human Medicines, which took evidence from clinical experts and patient representatives – including ‘trans’ patients – and concluded these drugs posed an unacceptable safety risk to children.
“Australian governments in the meantime continue to allow children as young as 14 to be prescribed these drugs while in August this year, a Victorian court ordered they be prescribed to a child of 12.
“There must be an immediate ban on the use of these drugs in Australia. There must be a high-level review of the UK commissions’ findings. There must be an inquiry into the real causes of the rapid increase in Australian children presenting with gender dysphoria.
> UPDATE on Kafka Party: Surprise, Surprise! Today I've received notification of a two-year expulsion from the Green Party (plus other Kafkaesque conditions on readmission). They've sat on this decision for 4 weeks (in violation of our own rules), after already having been forced to reverse their first disciplinary sanction. This latest manoeuvre is also in breach on multiple grounds. I will exhaust internal (corrupt) process but the public can expect to see front line authoritarian ideologues named in legal papers in my second GC discrimination case against the Party next year. They are a danger to society, notwithstanding the injustice of it all, with which I cannot abide. ⚖️ ♀️
> Juno Dawson complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation that spectator.co.uk breached Clause 1 (Accuracy), Clause 3 (Harassment) and Clause 12 (Discrimination) of the Editors’ Code of Practice in an article headlined “The sad truth about ‘saint’ Nicola Sturgeon”, published on 21 May 2024.
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