Posted on 06/22/2023 2:36:59 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Elon Musk’s Twitter faces a 28-day ultimatum from Australia’s internet safety watchdog to take decisive action against what it considers online abuse and “hate speech,” or face daily fines of $475,000.
France24 reports that Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s eSafety commissioner, has issued a stern warning to Twitter in a move to muzzle free speech. Twitter has been given 28 days to prove that it is serious about combating what Australia considers online abuse and “hate speech.” There could be daily fines of $700,000 AUD ($475,000 USD) for noncompliance.
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Hey Elon, just buy the island. Fair dinkum! Maybe put another pol on the bahbee? 🍤🍣😳
After guns then the virus, who GAF about Australia?
This is what fascist governments do to organs of free expression - threaten them until they parrot what the fascist governments say.
Totalitarian governments don’t like propaganda competition.
Imagine, a country that turned itself back into a penal colony, telling a business owner to bow to their wishes, or he will be punished.
Lol she tweeted about it and then locked out replies.
Just kick her off Twitter.
“Or simply turn off access to twitter for users in Australia.”
Better yet, Musk should just ignore the threat of fines, and let the Aussies block their own citizens from access to the internet.
G’day mayt.
The Aussies won’t do it. They’ll leave the access on and just start assessing fines.
Musk cutting off access removes his liability though.
Well they started as a country of convicts.
Twitter is not headquartered in Australia. Go fuq yourselves.
Project Gutenberg was one, wherein Gutenberg simply filtered out and entire county, and waited it out. Please come back was the response over time. Some small settlement in the Gutenberg case and all was / is forgotten.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024039
That was over something clear -- copyright. The notion that any government can put "hate" into a legal definition is laughable. Once rules are made and written for all to see, the two-edged blade comes to call.
Is calling Jews and Christians "pigs" and "dogs" and the "worst of creatures" hate speech? That's Koranic. Are such as digital editions of "Mein Kampf" and "Communist Manifesto" hate speech. The bluff remains a bluff.
Winner 🏆
Define hate
Then, make them defend every single case.
They can’t, and won’t.
Just make fascist decrees
Easy solution. Block all Australian IPs.
Yes.
“Elon has FU money” in case anyone was wondering what that phase meant.
Australia? LOL!, within a decade gelded Australian "authorities" will address Musk in the Official Language of the pipsqueak hole that it is: Mandarin Chinese.
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