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Colm Gannon
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Jul 1, 2026
Family Matters - Colm Gannon on the terrible reality of child exploitation
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Simon O'ConnorHOST
And so nothing should be done to put guardrails around children, but I'm sure with your work, your experience, the leadership role you have at the moment, you'll have some thoughts, guidance, or dare I say advice of what could and couldn't be possible?

Colm GannonGUEST
Yeah, it's actually interesting, because the Social Media Minimum Age Act in Australia has is in full swing.

Colm GannonGUEST
And people often ask me, like, how's it working out? I can tell you, realistically, it's not working out like we have 4.7 million accounts that were taken offline by social media online providers.

Colm GannonGUEST
And 4.7 million sounds like a big number when we're talking about young people.

Colm GannonGUEST
In reality, young people have over 16, sometimes over 10 accounts, social media accounts.

Colm GannonGUEST
So we don't even know the uniqueness of this number that was put out by the actual Australian government.

Colm GannonGUEST
What I would say is that, yes, we do need to actually put protections in place.
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Ballots, Books and Blizzards: 21 June, 2026
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Colm GannonGUEST
Like even from my background working in victim ID investigations straight away, there's alarm bells ringing here and now.

Colm GannonGUEST
If this is an AI companion that is actually tending to support or promote the sexual exploitation of children, it can actually cause people who are using the application to overcome the conscious barrier to actually sexually offending against children.
The dark reality of Australia's AI dream factory
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Colm GannonGUEST
Like even from my, from my background working in victim ID investigations, straight away there's alarm bells ringing here now.

Colm GannonGUEST
If this is an AI companion that is actually tending to support or promote the sexual exploitation of children, it can actually cause people who are using the application to overcome the conscious barrier to actually sexually offending against children.
