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rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 03/07/2026She had been satisfied with progress made by the remaining restricted platforms: X, Kick, Reddit, Threads and Twitch. Communications Minister Anika Wells said this week she had received monthly updates from eSafety since March and “we are not seeing improvements.” 020 2
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Inman Grant said in April she was considering court action against those platforms and YouTube, alleging they were not taking reasonable steps to exclude children. 110 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 03/07/2026But eSafety reported in March that seven in 10 children who held accounts on restricted platforms on Dec. 10 when the ban took effect remained on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok. 110 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Many countries who have implemented or are planning similar restrictions have been closely watching progress of Australia’s ban. The government initially reported more than 5 million children had accounts removed, deactivated or restricted after the ban became law. 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 03/07/2026“We will interrogate this bill properly and, frankly, I think the amendments before the Parliament need to be tougher,” she added. Parliament passed the initial legislation with overwhelming support in 2024. The 10 targeted platforms were given more than a year to implement the ban. 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Opposition communications spokesperson Sen. Sarah Henderson said the amendments needed to be tougher. “This is a social media ban which is failing; a half-baked law which is poorly designed, which was rushed, which is badly implemented and which is not working,” Henderson said. 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 03/07/2026“Doubling penalties that they've never used doesn't seem to me to be a meaningful measure,” Shoebridge told Sky News Australia. “Is that really going to be the thing that keeps kids safe online?” 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Greens Sen. David Shoebridge, who has always opposed the social media ban, questioned why a fine that had never been issued needed to be doubled. 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The bill would double the maximum fine to 99 million Australian dollars ($68 million) for platforms that fail to take reasonable steps to exclude children. 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The amendments would also give the commissioner power to demand information from third parties, including age assurance technology providers, to test claims made by platforms about how children continued to circumvent the ban. 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 03/07/2026“Whereas if it was passed yesterday, that would have been the date from which these demands could be made by the commissioner. So then fines can be issued,” he added. 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 03/07/2026“It is outrageous the delay because what the eSafety Commissioner has said very clearly is that that will allow the platforms to go and just delete a whole lot of material,” Albanese told Australian Broadcasting Corp. 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 03/07/2026But the conservative opposition Liberal Party and minor Australian Greens party referred the draft legislation Thursday to an eight-week Senate inquiry. The center-left Labor Party government does not hold a majority in the Senate. 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Instagram, and YouTube that has been in place since December. The amendments would have given Inman Grant power to demand documents as well as information from platforms about their efforts to exclude young children. She can currently only demand information. 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The government this week introduced to Parliament amendments aimed at increasing powers of the eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s online safety watchdog, to enforce the ban on Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on platforms including Facebook, 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 03/07/2026MELBOURNE, Australia Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday condemned senators who blocked changes to a world-first social media ban for children, saying tech giants would use the delay to destroy incriminating documents that could be used as evidence against them. 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 03/07/2026World Australian prime minister condemns delay of changes to child social media ban 170 7
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rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Jeffress did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 1221 22
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026for sexual abuse and defamation after a jury agreed that Trump sexually abused her in a New York department store dressing room in 1996. Another jury in 2024 awarded Carroll an additional $83 million for defamation. Both awards are under appeal. 1228 22
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Trump, in his post, also noted that Jeffress' firm represented E. Jean Carroll, the longtime advice columnist whose claims against Trump won her a $5 million award in 2023 110 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026an Ohio Democrat who serves as an ex officio member of the board through her position in Congress. He ruled in favor of Beatty’s request but rejected the other challenge. 110 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Cooper held hearings in late April for parallel lawsuits challenging the project. One lawsuit was filed by a group of cultural and historic preservation organizations. The other was brought by Rep. Joyce Beatty, 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Shortly after returning to office in January 2025, he ousted the center’s previous leadership and replaced it with a handpicked board of trustees that named him chairman. 110 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Trump on Saturday said it was the board, not him, that added the Trump name to the center. "They thought it would be good for this dying Institution,” he wrote. 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The judge also found that the board “overstepped its statutory bounds” by adding Trump’s name to the center. Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it, he said. Cooper ordered that Trump’s name be removed within two weeks. 122 2
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The administration had announced the work would begin in July and last approximately two years. Cooper’s ruling halts those plans for now. 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Cooper said in his ruling that the center board’s March 16 vote to close the venue was “ill-informed and seemingly preordained” with no regard for its legal obligations. 111 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Trump asserted that the Kennedy Center, named for the late Democratic president and opened in 1971, was “rusted, rotted, and rat and bug infested” and that the ”new Building would have been incomparable." 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026handling of classified documents from his time as a senator and as vice president. 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Trump also noted that Hecker Fink is representing former President Joe Biden in a lawsuit against the Department of Justice to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts from the Democrat's interviews with a ghostwriter that were obtained in an investigation into Biden's 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026is a former federal prosecutor who served as a counselor to Attorney General Eric Holder during the administration of Democratic President Barack Obama. Cooper was nominated for the bench by Obama. 112 2
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Without offering evidence, Trump suggested that Cooper’s wife, lawyer Amy Jeffress, was to blame in part for the ruling. The president noted that Jeffress, a partner at the Hecker Fink law firm, 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026including Trump’s name coming off the building and the Board otherwise complying with the law, I’m optimistic that the Center will begin the long journey back.” 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026“I have already heard from artists and from audience members alike who are excited about the Kennedy Center returning to non-partisan normality,” Eisen told The Associated Press in a text message on Saturday. “It’s early days yet but as and when the court’s order is implemented, 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026a former White House ethics lawyer who is involved in a lawsuit challenging Trump's Kennedy Center plans. 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The White House did not immediately clarify his position or say whether he would keep serving as the center’s board chairman. Trump's earlier post signaling a retreat from the center gave hope to artists who had been alienated by his takeover, said Norm Eisen, 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026until the Republican president's second term, had been known as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. 100 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026His post aimed to make the case for the project but did not clarify whether he would continue to defend it in court. Hours after Cooper's decision, Trump said he was backing away from the renovations and making arrangements to relinquish control to Congress of what, 110 1
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026he said it was “impossible for me to be treated fairly,” tying Cooper's ruling to earlier losses, including the Supreme Court’s rejection in February of his sweeping tariffs. 120 2
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026In a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform, Trump fumed about the Friday decision from U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper who also ordered Trump’s name removed from the center. Clearly angered by his latest legal setback, 120 2
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026overhaul will “soon be closed, probably never to open again.” 121 2
rockylane74.bsky.social @rockylane74.bsky.social · 31/05/2026WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Saturday branded the federal judge who blocked his renovation of the Kennedy Center as “an anti Trump Hater”and predicted that the nation's premier performing arts center he wanted to shutter for a two-year 121 2
