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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Much like the word “controversial” the enemedia likes to use the word “alleged” to fit a narrative at their convenience.
That turns Australian leaders into mass murderers, unlike some businessman with a website.
Next they will go after networks, because some of the are virtual.
Turn off Starlink for Australia. Service “glitch” or something.
“Is there any question on whether the Bishop was stabbed or not?”
Of course there is a big question. Whether the mostly peaceful stabbing occurred or not depends on who did the stabbing.
As the person who did the stabbing was a “newcomer” the event is very much in question.
Don’t believe your lying eyes.
Since when did the dictatorial Aussie government limit its decrees to the law of that land down under. “Lex Rex” made the West and “Rex Lex” is a step backward to serfdom.
Austrailia is certainly welcome to cut itself off from the internet, if it wants to “protect” its mind-numbed robots (who have already allowed themselves to be disarmed) masquerading as citizens. The rest of the world will somehow have to live without kangaroo videos.
Many have expected an eventual turn against the billionaire class. It seems to be arriving.
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