Selinger-Morris: The backdrop to all of this is that our eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has been battling, well, with Elon Musk, I believe it was at the time, to get a video taken down on X. So what sort of struggles might we see, going forward?

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Hartcher: Well, according to the Trump view of the world, an American corporation or entity can do what it likes, and say what it likes, and any country that attempts to regulate, control or limit that in any way is going to be subject to punishment.

Last week, as part of this whole agenda, the US State Department announced they would put a visa ban on anyone from any country who’s complicit in what he called censorship in America. So on that definition, anybody in the Australian government who has got any involvement with the policy to ban, for example, kids under 16 from social media, would earn a visa ban from the US, who knows, maybe including the [Australian] prime minister himself, since it’s his policy. So this is the beginning.