Albanese said the episode showed Musk was “disconnected” from the public, adding that “social media needs to have social responsibility – Mr. Musk shows none.”
Australia’s Federal Court on Monday evening issued an interim injunction ordering X to temporarily hide posts showing footage of the Sydney church attack, where an Assyrian bishop was stabbed by a teenager during a live broadcast .
Musk – one of the world’s richest men and CEO of Tesla – is a self-proclaimed defender of free speech. lawyer and hit back at the court order regarding X, tweeting that the issue amounted to international censorship.
“I don’t think I’m above the law. Does the Prime Minister think he should have jurisdiction over the whole Earth? » Musk said, referring to Albanian. “This platform adheres to the laws of these countries, but it would be inappropriate to extend the decisions of one country to other countries,” he said. tweeted.
Australia’s Safety Commissioner, which independently regulates online safety, said in a statement on Tuesday that its removal notice to X required it to “take all reasonable steps to ensure the removal of extremely violent video content » of the attack on the church on April 15.
“While it can be difficult to completely eradicate harmful content from the Internet, especially when users continue to repost it, eSafety requires platforms to do everything practical and reasonable to minimize the harm they can cause to Australians,” he said. “To be clear, eSafety’s removal notice does not address comments, public discussions, or other posts about this event, even those that may be linked to extremely violent content. This only concerns the video of the violent stabbing attack.
Musk asked in a job Is it true that the “electronic security commissioner (an unelected official) in Australia has authority over every country on Earth? »
“Our concern is that if ANY country is allowed to censor content from ALL countries, which is what Australia’s ‘electronic security commissioner’ is calling for, then what is to stop one country from controlling all of the Internet?” he said.
The commissioner’s office added that it would seek a “permanent injunction” to remove the videos as well as “civil penalties against X Corp.” Under Australian law, the maximum civil penalty for failing to comply with a removal notice for businesses could be more than $500,000 per violation, creating a potentially hefty bill for X.
The regulator added that other tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, Meta, Snap and TikTok, had mostly complied with its requests to remove and “reduce the spread of the material.”
Musk has said that its platform has “effectively blocked the content in question for Australian IP addresses, pending legal action, and that it only exists on servers in the United States.”
The attack on the Orthodox church in suburban Sydney left Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel injured after he was stabbed with a knife on the pulpit as he delivered a live-streamed sermon. The incident shocked Australians and is being investigated as a potential act of terrorism, police said. A 16-year-old boy has been charged.
An Australian MP, independent senator Jacqui Lambie, went further by deleting her X account and urging other politicians to do the same.
“He has absolutely no social conscience,” Lambie said of Musk during an interview with Sky News on Tuesday. “This guy shouldn’t be allowed to be out there…creating hate.”
“I’m going to turn off X today,” she vowed. “Show them you’re serious,” she added. Tuesday evening, she account appears to have been deleted.
Since taking over Twitter in 2022, Musk has eased the platform’s restrictions on hateful content and misinformation in the name of free speech and reinstated thousands of banned accounts.
Last year, X was fined $386,000 in Australia for failing to cooperate with an investigation into anti-child abuse practices. Musk is also embroiled in another ongoing dispute in Brazil, where a Supreme Court judge has accused him of allowing his social media platform to support “digital militias” that use disinformation to threaten democracy. Musk has rejected these claims.
Ongoing legal battles could influence how social media platforms police their users. countries which regulate free speech differently than the United States.
News Source : www.washingtonpost.com
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