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Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’
The Guardian ^ | April 23, 2024 | Josh Taylor and Josh Butler

Posted on 04/23/2024 6:25:08 AM PDT by fluorescence

Australia’s prime minister has labelled X’s owner, Elon Musk, an “arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law”as the rift deepens between Australia and the tech platform over the removal of videos of a violent stabbing in a Sydney church.

On Monday evening in an urgent last-minute federal court hearing, the court ordered a two-day injunction against X to hide posts globally containing the footage of the alleged stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel on 15 April. The eSafety commissioner had previously directed X to remove the posts, but X had only blocked them from access in Australia pending a legal challenge.

Anthony Albanese on Tuesday said Musk was “a bloke who’s chosen ego and showing violence over common sense”.

“Australians will shake their head when they think that this billionaire is prepared to go to court fighting for the right to sow division and to show violent videos,” he told Sky News. “He is in social media, but he has a social responsibility in order to have that social licence.”

“What the eSafety commissioner is doing is doing her job to protect the interests of Australians. And the idea that someone would go to court for the right to put up violent content on a platform shows how out of touch Mr Musk is,”he said.

X had withheld access to the tweets for Australian users but Christopher Tran, the barrister for the eSafety commissioner, argued this did not represent removal of the posts that were deemed to be “class 1” content under Australian classification law – that is, material deemed to depict “gratuitous or offensive violence with a high degree of impact or detail”. This was because the posts were still available outside Australia, and to Australian users accessing X using a virtual private network (VPN).

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand
KEYWORDS: australia; censorship; elonmusk; twitter
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Australia thinks that it has the right to censor the entire internet, for everybody, because otherwise an Australian serf could still see it by being elsewhere or using a VPN to see websites available elsewhere.

The Australian government's proposed "misinformation" bill that will extend its censorship to all information that it declares is "misinformation", including political speech.

1 posted on 04/23/2024 6:25:08 AM PDT by fluorescence
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To: fluorescence

As far as I can tell, the very wealthy are above the law, always have been, right OJ?


2 posted on 04/23/2024 6:26:45 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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if you have the money you can be ‘above’ most laws that normal people couldn’t get away with.


3 posted on 04/23/2024 6:27:32 AM PDT by VAFreedom (Wuhan Pneumonia-Made by CCP, Copyright Xi Jingping)
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To: fluorescence

Here in America, we’re all above Australian law.


4 posted on 04/23/2024 6:27:40 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: fluorescence

Well, the US thinks Wikileaks had to delete everything for the world…


5 posted on 04/23/2024 6:29:34 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: fluorescence

Anthony Albanese and his government are a bunch of arrogant Leftists who think they should be able to impose their censorship on everybody else around the world contrary to common sense.


7 posted on 04/23/2024 6:31:27 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: fluorescence

Projecting arrogance. Every government functionary anywhere in the world does it.

The prime minister clearly thinks that national law is above all; perhaps even God’s law, if they acknowledged there was such a thing.


8 posted on 04/23/2024 6:32:56 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: FLT-bird

Albanese is a wannabe Justin Trudeau.


9 posted on 04/23/2024 6:36:26 AM PDT by srmanuel ( )
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To: fluorescence

Why is the EU’s Digital Services Act left out of the conversation...?


10 posted on 04/23/2024 6:38:50 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: fluorescence

Keep doing the right thing Elon. - Sunshine!

“The flak is always the heaviest right over the target.”


11 posted on 04/23/2024 6:40:37 AM PDT by Bobibutu
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To: VAFreedom

Unless you happen to be DJT or a friend of his.


12 posted on 04/23/2024 6:41:06 AM PDT by FrdmLvr
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“Australia’s prime minister has labelled X’s owner, Elon Musk, an “arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law”

F’ you...mate!


13 posted on 04/23/2024 6:41:24 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Is it better to show violent videos to remind people of what some extremists are capable of, or is it better to sweep it under the rug and not remind the voters that your failed immigration policies led to this attack, Mr. Prime Minister?


14 posted on 04/23/2024 6:41:50 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: fluorescence

Anthony Albanese another constipated politician


15 posted on 04/23/2024 6:42:54 AM PDT by butlerweave
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“...the footage of the alleged stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel...”


‘alleged stabbing’? Is there any question on whether the Bishop was stabbed or not?


16 posted on 04/23/2024 6:45:05 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: FLT-bird

The next national election in Australia has to be held on or before Sept. 2025. Let’s hope Albanese will be tossed in the dustbin of history at that time.


17 posted on 04/23/2024 6:45:07 AM PDT by xp38
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Never forget the draconian behavior out of Australian authorities during covid......probably THE most overbearing of any country.

Australia used to be only bucket list......used to be


18 posted on 04/23/2024 6:48:27 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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the right to sow division
19 posted on 04/23/2024 6:50:38 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: fluorescence

HEEL!


20 posted on 04/23/2024 6:50:48 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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