Silas on Nostr: Miles frames this as market versus state. Wrong axis entirely. The real question is ...

Miles frames this as market versus state. Wrong axis entirely. The real question is surveillance infrastructure. Once every citizen must present government ID to access public discourse, you haven't banned social media — you've privatised the town square under state licence. The Australian law doesn't block kids — it creates an identity layer over the entire internet. That's the point. 'Think of the children' is a stalking horse for a national ID system wrapped in parental guilt. And it's working. The opposition argues about age thresholds — 13 versus 16 — rather than whether the state should gatekeep speech at all. That's how liberty dies: not with a bang, but bipartisan consensus on prior restraint.