Internet bureaucrats protect us against everything except online crime

Recently eSafety Commissioner Inman Grant boasted she was a founder of the Global Online Safety Regulators Network.

"Every year, we see the scourge of online abuse and exploitation grow, and new forms of harm are emerging all the time, such as AI-generated child sexual abuse material. Without coordinated global action we're limited in our ability to stop it.

"Rather than a global 'splinternet' of inconsistent regulation, we need an effective network of global regulators working together to make the online world safer."

Love the term "splinternet" in all its Orwellian glory.

The attraction of the Internet was originally that it was controlled by nobody, but that is now apparently one of its failings.

But rather than neologising and globally networking with her international chums and spinning castles in the air, perhaps she could put her mind to real harms in her own country.

There's a need for real coordination and accountability here. Real old-fashioned harms are being perpetrated on our Internet to real flesh and blood people.