An independent Australian journal · Melbourne
The Australian journal of takedowns, de-indexing and digital reputation
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Every article on this desk sits in one of five hubs. Use them as a map when you are not sure whether the problem is a platform policy, an Australian statute, a search cache or a data broker.
Statute, not slogans
Defamation after the 2021 reforms, the Online Safety Act, the Privacy Act and copyright — what Australian law can actually make a publisher, platform or search engine do.
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The urgent desk
Deepfakes, non-consensual intimate images, fake profiles, doxxing and anything involving a child — the Australian pathways that should be used first, and in the right order.
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Report buttons and the policy behind them
How Australians actually get posts, profiles, videos and reviews taken down on Google, Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit and the rest — and where the report button simply will not go.
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The copies that were never a post
People-search sites, court lists, AustLII, ASIC, ABN Lookup, news archives and the old White Pages — public records and commercial scrapes that outlive any social post.
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After the page is gone
De-indexing, caches, sitelinks, Knowledge Panels, AI Overviews and the Wayback Machine — the places a takedown goes to die, or to live forever.
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