For months, Australia’s eSafety Commission was gearing up to become a global thought police force, wielding the power to silence speech across borders. The plan was simple—pass sweeping censorship laws, fine platforms like X into submission, and dictate what the world could and couldn’t say online. It looked inevitable. Until now.
Thanks to the newly passed No Censors on Our Shores Act, those dreams are officially dead. Any Australian bureaucrat caught censoring free speech that would be legal under the U.S. First Amendment is now banned from setting foot in America. That means no more backdoor attempts to control platforms hosted in the U.S., no more demands for American users’ posts to be taken down, and no more weaponizing massive fines against tech companies that refuse to comply.
This isn’t just a minor inconvenience for Australia’s censors—it’s a direct roadblock to their entire agenda. Every single bureaucrat at the eSafety Commission, along with every Australian MP or Senator who pushed for these censorship laws, could now find themselves locked out of the U.S. entirely. That includes the people pushing age verification requirements on American platforms, effectively making enforcement impossible.
This is a massive victory. For months, it seemed like governments were quietly working together to tighten the noose around online speech, using vague terms like “misinformation” and “harm” as an excuse for broad censorship powers. Now, one of the biggest power grabs in modern history just hit a wall.
Australia’s internet censors thought they could dictate the rules for the entire world. Turns out, America had something to say about that.