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Australian Senator Demands Elon Musk “Be Jailed” for Allowing Free Speech on π
Let that sink in.
This article originally appeared on Infowars and was republished with permission.
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Australian Senator Jacqui Lambie called for Elon Musk to be jailed for allowing footage of a priest being stabbed by a radical Islamist to be shared freely on the X platform.
βElon Musk has no social conscience, or conscience whatsoever,β Lambie said Monday while speaking on ABC RN, adding it was βabsolutely disgusting behaviourβ to allow the graphic content to be posted on X.
Australian Senator Jacqui Lambie says Elon Musk needs to be jailed because heβs allowing too much free speech on X.
β Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 23, 2024
βQuite frankly the bloke should be jailed, and the sooner we can bring laws in and do something about this game playing with our social media the better off weβreβ¦ pic.twitter.com/Nk5TBoYJx1
βAnd quite frankly the bloke should be jailed, and the sooner that we can bring rules in or do something about this sort of game playing with our social media, the better off weβre going to be,β Lambie said.
She added, βBut quite frankly, the power that that man has because of that platform that heβs on, itβs got to stop. It has absolutely got to stop. But leaving that out for our kids to see, for people that were family and friends out there and just letting that run on there, once again, that bloke has no conscience. Heβs an absolute frigginβ disgrace, and thereβs nothing else to say about Elon Musk.β
She reiterated her sentiment on Sky News Australia on Tuesday, saying, βSomeone like that should be in jail and the key be thrown away.β
The feud between Australiaβs tyrannical lawmakers and Musk began after an Assyrian Orthodox bishop in Sydney was stabbed by an Islamist during a livestreamed sermon last week.
The countryβs social media regulator then ordered Muskβs platform to remove content showing the stabbing of the priest or face a daily fine of $500,000.
But X and Musk have refused to comply, arguing that Australiaβs regulators donβt have the power to determine what content can be shown in other countries.
From Fortune:
Following the incident, the eSafety Commission ordered social media platforms to remove content related to the attack.
In a post on Saturday, X said it complied with the demand to remove βcertain postsβ in Australia, in a statement posted to the social media platform. Yet it also argued that the order was βnot within the scope of Australian law,β and that it would file a legal challenge.
In that same post, X claimed that the eSafety Commission demanded the social media platform take down content for all users globally, or face daily fines of 785,000 Australian dollars ($506,000).
On Monday, an Australian court upheld the global ban until Wednesday, at which point the court would consider making the ban permanent. During the hearing, Commission lawyers argued that Australia-based users could still use virtual private networks to see the posts.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday called Musk an βarrogant billionaire who thinks heβs above the lawβ for refusing to take down the video and βa bloke whoβs chosen ego and showing violence over common sense.β
βI think that 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, which are very distressing,β Albanese told Sky News.
NEW: Australian Prime Minister GOING AFTER Elon Musk, accidentally admits π platform is the only truthful one.
β TaraBull (@TaraBull808) April 22, 2024
Despite cyber regulator’s demanding the removal of posts on π, Elon Musk refuses to bend to their demands, stating,
“It is absurd for any ONE country to attempt toβ¦ pic.twitter.com/mUx87IZHce
Musk responded to the PMβs remarks, saying, βNo president, prime minister or judge has authority over all of Earth! This platform adheres to the laws of countries in those countries, but it would be improper to extend one countryβs rulings to other countries. If he want to censor things in other countries, he should bring a legal action to bear in those countries.β
Well, no president, prime minister or judge has authority over all of Earth!
β Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 23, 2024
This platform adheres to the laws of countries in those countries, but it would be improper to extend one countryβs rulings to other countries.
If he want to censor things in other countries, he shouldβ¦
As for Senator Jacqui Lambie, she deleted her X account to boycott the platform and encouraged others to do the same.
Since the COVID plandemic, widespread censorship has become a feature, not an exception, of social media discourse in Australia.
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