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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The Australian government's proposed "misinformation" bill that will extend its censorship to all information that it declares is "misinformation", including political speech.
As far as I can tell, the very wealthy are above the law, always have been, right OJ?
if you have the money you can be ‘above’ most laws that normal people couldn’t get away with.
Here in America, we’re all above Australian law.
Well, the US thinks Wikileaks had to delete everything for the world…
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.
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.
Albanese is a wannabe Justin Trudeau.
Why is the EU’s Digital Services Act left out of the conversation...?
Keep doing the right thing Elon. - Sunshine!
“The flak is always the heaviest right over the target.”
Unless you happen to be DJT or a friend of his.
“Australia’s prime minister has labelled X’s owner, Elon Musk, an “arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law”
F’ you...mate!
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?
Anthony Albanese another constipated politician
“...the footage of the alleged stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel...”
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.
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
HEEL!
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