Holding Ashley Stephen Geelan to account since 2019
Victorian News has published an AAP story headed “New laws to force tech giants to unmask online trolls”. The story reports Premier Jacinta Allan’s announcement that Victoria will draft laws giving VCAT “demasking” powers over anonymous accounts accused of online vilification, while also lowering the legal threshold for families suing social media and AI platforms […]
This article is based on Bluesky posts from victoriannews.com.au dated 19 July 2026 and public education-history records. Ashley Geelan’s Bluesky account spent 19 July 2026 attacking Neil Mitchell, 3AW, KIIS FM, Kyle Sandilands, ARN and commercial radio standards. Media criticism is fair game. What is not fair game is using a media-branded account to publish […]
Ashley Geelan has a favourite move. When he dislikes someone, he does not merely argue with them. He reaches for the same small pile of labels: Nazi, neo-Nazi, cooker, racist, grifter, dickhead. Sometimes the target is a politician. Sometimes it is a media figure. Sometimes it is Elon Musk. Sometimes it is a whole class […]
Ashley Geelan has spent years writing as if crime is something that happens somewhere else, committed by someone else, and observed by him from a safe moral distance. On Wednesday morning, he put something very different on Bluesky. In a public thread from the Geelan Mitchell Media account at @victoriannews.com.au, Geelan described buying a packet […]