In celebration* of eSafety's latest tilt at more money and power, recall the statement "No matter how much you try,
you can’t stop people
from sticking beans up their nose."
"Every so often, you’ll run into someone with beans who, for no good reason, has decided to put them up their own nose. Way up there. In a place where beans should never go."
"The only thing I can do in a beans-and-noses situation is wait. Wait until the bean is in its final resting place. Then, with a calmness typically reserved by yoga instructors, I can turn the nose owner and ask, “So, how is that working for you? Did it do everything you’d hoped?”
For a lot of Australian public policy, most people claim to be unhappy with the situation and yet the solution proposed is always to shove more beans up there.