Epitome: Australia’s own Helen Lovejoy
By Elliott Richardson in Epitome on Friday, 26th November 2021 at 11:09am
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Business | Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has the power from January 2022 to remove anything on the web she deems to be cyberbullying, abhorrent violent material and image-based abuse, essentially taking the Helen Lovejoy character from the Simpsons and making it into a full-time job.
Throughout the federal government’s pushing of the Online Safety Act, Inman Grant claimed she wasn’t going to be issuing takedown notices for porn or LGBTIQ+ content, despite having the power to do so. Nevertheless, the sex industry and LGBTIQ+ community continues to hold fears that she will do exactly that at some point, and those fears were not helped when the eSafety Commissioner appeared on a pod...
Business | Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has the power from January 2022 to remove anything on the web she deems to be cyberbullying, abhorrent violent material and image-based abuse, essentially taking the Helen Lovejoy character from the Simpsons and making it into a full-time job.

Throughout the federal government’s pushing of the Online Safety Act, Inman Grant claimed she wasn’t going to be issuing takedown notices for porn or LGBTIQ+ content, despite having the power to do so. Nevertheless, the sex industry and LGBTIQ+ community continues to hold fears that she will do exactly that at some point, and those fears were not helped when the eSafety Commissioner appeared on a pod...
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