Holding Ashley Stephen Geelan to account since 2019
There is a funny thing about Ashley Geelan and Donald Trump. Geelan would almost certainly hate the comparison. That is part of the point. The people who cannot stop telling everyone how important they are usually get very delicate when someone holds up a mirror. To be clear, this is not an argument about American […]
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 […]
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 […]