‘What is to stop any country from controlling the entire internet?’ Musk takes on Australian free speech laws
Elon Musk will send his lawyers into battle a takedown notice for social media platform X, arguing the Australian eSafety Commissioner has overstepped in making the legal demand.
The tech giant is kicking against a Federal Court order to remove videos of the Wakeley church stabbing from social media platform X, after it refused to comply with a formal takedown notice by the eSafety commissioner.
Musk voiced his concerns last night on X, saying: “Our concern is that if ANY country is allowed to censor content for ALL countries, which is what the Australian ‘eSafety Commissar’ is demanding, then what is to stop any country from controlling the entire Internet?”
Those with even a shred of cognitive function can see that this takedown of X is nothing but a personal vendetta. Hello ex-twitter
employee Julie Inman Grant (who’s not even an Australian!)
The fact that the same material is readily available on Facebook and Instagram, without a whisper of condemnation, exposes the truth: independent content creators are steamrolling the mainstream media and thriving on X and TikTok. This isn’t about sanitising “harmful content”; it’s all about seizing back control of the narrative from the decrepit, gasping dying mainstream media.
Whilst I agree in proncipal about what Musk is saying, he has a tendency to control free speech on his own platform and then when called out on it, you can only hear crickets. Musk posts inflammatory content and conspiracy theories that are not based in truth so he is giving himself carte blanche to post rubbish and then hiding behind the first amendment.