Elon Musk lashes out at Australia’s prime minister on Tuesday, saying that any nation could have access to” the entire online” after a judge ordered his social media firm X to remove footage of an alleged terrorist attack in Sydney.
Australia’s Federal Court ordered X, formerly known as Twitter, to temporarily cover articles showing video of the incident a year earlier, when a teenager was accused of violence for knifing an Assyrian pastor and others, at a hearing immediately.
X claimed it had already blocked the articles from American users, but the American e-Safety Commissioner had advised that the content be removed because it showed explicit violence.
In a meme posted on the program that read” X stands for free speech and reality” while other social media platforms referred to as “censorship and propaganda,” billionaire Musk, who purchased X in 2022 and declared his mission to protect free speech.
” Do n’t take my word for it, just ask the Australian PM! ” he wrote alongside the blog.
In another article, Musk wrote that the bank’s” problem is that if ANY country is allowed to judge information for ALL places, which is what the Australian’eSafety Commissar ‘ is demanding, then what is to prevent any state from controlling the entire Online? “
The response from the third-richest person in the world opens a new chapter in the conflict between the program he paid$ 44 billion for and nations and organizations that want more control over its content.
Next month, a U. S. X filed a complaint against the hate speech regulator Center for Countering Digital Hate, which was rejected by the judge. In Australia, the e-Safety Commissioner fined X A$ 610,500 last year for failing to cooperate with a sensor on anti-child abuse methods; X is contesting that punishment in judge.
Anthony Albanese, the country’s prime minister, retaliated against Musk, saying the nation had “do what’s necessary to take on this rude billionaire who thinks he’s above the legislation, but likewise above common decency.”
According to Albanese,” The idea that people would go to judge for the right to post aggressive content on a system shows how out-of-touch Mr. Musk is.”
The e-Safety Commissioner and the X Spokesperson for X were unavailable for post right away.
A Reuters writer in Australia was able to see to the content despite Musk claim in another article that X had made the attack film “inaccessible to American Internet names.”
Pro-terror materials are a particularly strange hills to kill on, but they are in line with the company’s disorganized and careless approach to the most fundamental consumer safety issues that, under past leadership, the platform used to get seriously, according to Alice Dawkins, executive director of Reset, an online policy non-profit. Tech Australia.
