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Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.
(globalvoices.org)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I'm an Australian, and I don't remember the 'firewall' that you're talking about. Do you have a link or something to remind me?
This is the first result from Google. It's I guess ancient history now being it was the labor rights push to (probably) unintentionally discredit kevin07, but internal politics aside Conroy (famous for his opposition to adult rating for videogames) was for aong time a candidate for 'biggest piece of shit in Australian politics'. Stephen Conroy was the face of it, so search for him and firewall to your hearts content. The Alana and Madeline foundation were involved in some of the testing that damned the project, if I remember right (as if common since hadn't already damned it with seconds of the sales pitch).