Give an inch and they’ll take a mile – it is fair to say Australians are waking up to the consequences of what an emboldened bureaucracy, when bestowed with the right to police what we can think and say, can do.

What started as a well-intentioned, yet perhaps naive attempt to unmask online agitators and trolls that bully students in high school has evolved into a far more sinister attempt at regulating the free exchange of ideas in this country.