Albanese’s tricks have misfired.
There’s perhaps no more pristine example of a Globalist leader than Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese: the guy checks all the boxes.
He is obsessed with Net-zero and Paris-aligned climate targets, of course.
During the COVID crisis, we saw him angling to cede health-policy control to an unelected international body – and in fact, he seems to want to give up sovereignty altogether in favor of a ‘UN-centric multilateralism’.
Albanese has maintained a sustained high level of migration, and is big on ‘identity politics’.
And then, we come to his online-control ideas, which, of course, center around the nefarious ‘Digital-ID’, and have, as a first experiment, his ‘groundbreaking’ under-16 social-media ban.
We all understand Albanese’s online plans to be nothing but attempts at back-door surveillance, and a revival of the rejected and dropped ‘misinformation laws’.
The good news is that the ban is turning out to be a total flop.
JUST IN: Study reveals that despite Australia’s under 16 social media ban, TikTok use among 13-15 y/o’s is nearly back to pre-ban levels.
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) August 25, 2026
Business Insider reported:
“According to a report by parental-control tool company Qustodio, the Australian social media ban has been impressively ineffective.
[…] Some 26% of children between the ages of 13 and 15 were on TikTok as of last month, just one percentage point below the rate prior to Australia’s groundbreaking rules coming into effect, the parental control software maker said. The rate for children between the ages of 10 and 12 is higher now than before the ban, according to the data.
What Qustodio found across Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat use, there was a distinct drop in use among 10-12 year olds and 13-15 year olds for a few weeks right when the ban started in December 2025. But after a few months, kids steadily got back on, nearing or matching pre-ban levels.”
Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s despite world-leading ban.
The use of apps TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat among 10-12 year olds and 13 to 15-year olds is on the rise, data from parental control app Qustodio showshttps://t.co/qzrEpXUYHf pic.twitter.com/4lurpNEgxf
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) August 26, 2026
Even Australia’s own eSafety commission found that ‘the amount of 10- to 15-year-olds using social media apps had only dropped from 86% to about 81%’.
But just because the ban is a bad idea and it’s going poorly, that does not mean that other countries won’t try to imitate it.
Similar bans are in place or in the works in France, the UK, New Zealand, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Bloomberg reported:
“’In the end, kids want access because they want to be connected just like the rest of us’, [Qustodio’s Yasmin] London said.
[…] The new data underscores [the] concerns about the effectiveness of Australia’s age controls and Big Tech’s compliance with them. Regulators, tech firms and parents around the world are studying Australia’s experience as more than two dozen governments have implemented or are seeking to implement similar measures.”
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