It’s a secret that Riley Dennis is Riley Dennis
The Australian government has instructed a news outlet to remove or heavily censor an article that “offended” a trans-identified male living in the country.
Reduxx, an independent media project dedicated to exposing gender ideology, received a notice from Australia’s eSafety Commissioner on April 28. The notice alerted them to a complaint made about an article they published on April 1.
The article, “Thousands of Complaints Filed After Trans YouTuber Allowed To Play On Women’s Football League, Reportedly Injured Players,” revealed the identity of a transgender male who had been the subject of mass complaint after reportedly injuring female players at a football game while playing on the women’s team.
The male in question is Riley Dennis.
Apparently his anonymity is more important than the safety and fair sport of female football players.
Why would that be? Why should it be a secret who he is? Why should he be protected while the women are both harmed and injured?
Dennis is a trans activist and former YouTuber best known for having condemned lesbians as “transphobic” for not dating trans-identified males.
Surely Dennis is even more transphobic for not dating trans-identified males. Why do women have to when he doesn’t have to? Who made that rule? Other than Rapists Unlimited?
Despite Reduxx not being located in Australia, the outlet was instructed by the Australian government to remove all images of Dennis, including all references to the player’s name, soccer club and social media handles.
How about “No.”
This is very odd. I’d have thought some sort of legal process, perhaps a court order, would be needed before a democratic government could order that something be removed from the internet. Or does the Australian government now rule by decree?
I wonder if that’s true that Dennis doesn’t date other transwomen. I mean, it would be highly significant if it is. As a question of principles and stuff. Ordinarily I wouldn’t care at all about the romantic life of such a null set.
I’m pretty sure this order carries zero weight and hence zero legal jeopardy for Reduxx if it chooses to ignore the order.
The powers of the safety commissioner are listed here.
https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/who-we-are/our-legislative-functions
It looks as though they are most likely taking action under the adult bullying heading. But it’s not at all clear to me that Riley is being bullied. If he suffers any reputational harm it is because of his own actions in forcing himself into women’s sport and physically harming multiple women. On its face this appears to be a situation where Th legislation, controversial when it was proposed, is being stretched beyond its stated purpose. If a man was known to be tripping or shoving women walking down the street and for some reason the police were not taking action about it, that would be directly analogous. I doubt the safety commissioner would take action against a journalist for writing about it. Is the safety commissioner going to protect every trans person who causes harm to others just because they’re trans? It smacks of being a most protected class of citizen, for no particular reason. The potential for abuse of waffley legislation that controls public speech was exactly why this legislation was so controversial when proposed. I hope it receives more scrutiny as a result.
In terms of enforcement the esafety Commissioner can seek civil penalties, which for a US outlet might be difficult. Maybe they’ll try and force Australian internet providers to block the URL under threat of penalties which they may be able to do in Australia.
Please note:
His name is Justin Dennis.
He has had no surgery, and AFAIK, is not on any form of drug therapy.
He is a homophobic misogynist bully who often posts anti feminist rants.
And the safety commissioner cannot touch Reduxx, they can only make requests. From their website:
https://i.postimg.cc/cLwwDnrv/2023-04-29-13-56-40.png
Yes, that already happens, although it seems not all ISPs are following “the rules”. My last ISP enforced the blocks, but my current one doesn’t. It seems the smaller players are thumbing their noses and getting away with it.
I fundamentally don’t understand the Australian situation; don’t you lot have a right wing government (obviously not Republican in nature)?
Labor is in power federally and in all but one State/Territory government. Oz governments of any stripe tend to to let right wing pressure group dictate financial policy, and left wing pressure groups dictate cultural policy, and keep the public out of deliberations as much as possible.
Yeah. Nah. Tossed then out last year and replaced them with a slightly less right-wing one.
Labor in Queensland has legislated Self ID, and Labor in Victoria puts men in women’s prisons.
South Australia’s Labor Premier, Premier Peter Malinauskas, has revealed he defines a woman as “an adult female” amid controversy around a bipartisan decision to remove gendered pronouns from state parliament’s rules of procedure. Malinauskas is a Catholic grandson of Lithuanian refugees, so understandable.
I hate having to stand shoulder to shoulder with women like Posey Parker and Katherine Deeves, but on this one issue, they are both perfectly correct. To not stand with them because of their opinions on abortion, etc. would be wrong.
What are you talking about? Posie Parker is not against abortion. Don’t fall for the slurs and outright lies about her. However I do get your overall point -this is not a left vs right issue. It is an issue of truth.