{"id":16410,"date":"2026-10-26T12:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16410"},"modified":"2026-10-26T12:06:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:06:02","slug":"sad-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16410","title":{"rendered":"Sad face"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t get any pleasure or excitement from saying &#8220;I told you so,&#8221; but here it is. The Online Safety Act was introduced into legislation in October 2023. I wrote about how awful it was then. I&#8217;ve written about how awful it was several times since. It is awful. It&#8217;s a stunningly brilliant piece of terrible thinking. It&#8217;s like a bunch of people got together in a room and began working up idea for children to ignore. Then they made those ideas into a law and are, apparently, surprised when, three years later, children are ignoring their ideas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261024_083617_BBC-News-1024x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261024_083617_BBC-News-1024x477.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261024_083617_BBC-News-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261024_083617_BBC-News-767x357.jpg 767w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot_20261024_083617_BBC-News.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get any pleasure or excitement from saying &#8220;I told you so,&#8221; but here it is. The Online Safety Act was introduced into legislation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16412,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16410\/revisions\/16412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}