As tech billionaire and future Division of Authorities Effectivity Director Elon Musk flexes his political muscular tissues, a Globalist Premier from Down Below is publicly doubting the sincerity of his free-speech advocacy, suggesting it’s all about serving to the companies he owns.
From the highest of his 180 billion-strong follower base, Musk has had on-line controversies with many highly effective world leaders, going so far as saying that the UK has gone ‘full Stalin’ of their new inheritance tax.
And Australia has been considered one of his most frequent targets.
When an Australian court docket ordered X to take away video of the stabbing assault on Sydney bishop Mar Mari Emanuel, Musk denounced it as censorship.
Albanese replied, calling Musk an ‘boastful billionaire who thinks he’s above the regulation.’
When Australian plans to crack down on ‘misinformation’ [a.k.a. free-speech] on-line surfaced, Musk referred to as the federal government ‘fascists.’
Now, Musk once more addressed the nation’s laws, criticizing proposed laws to ban social media for youngsters beneath 16.
And it’ll now formally grow to be regulation.
We’re doing all the pieces we will to maintain our youngsters protected. pic.twitter.com/1Eiy8pv7av
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) November 28, 2024
NBC news reported:
“Australia plans to trial an age-verification system which will embrace biometrics or authorities identification to forestall youngsters and younger youngsters from accessing social media platforms similar to X, Instagram, Fb and TikTok, with corporations liable to be fined as much as 50 million Australian {dollars} ($32.5 million) if there are systemic breaches.”
The laws by Australia’s Globalist Liberal authorities might be among the many world’s hardest on social media.
“’Looks like a backdoor option to management entry to the Web by all Australians’, Musk, a self-proclaimed free speech advocate, stated Thursday on X in response to a publish concerning the invoice by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.”
Looks like a backdoor option to management entry to the Web by all Australians https://t.co/694yCzWOaB
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 21, 2024
So, Albanese on Sunday (1) replied, saying Musk’s criticism of his draconian social media insurance policies are solely meant to ‘push his personal agenda’ as proprietor of social media platform X.
Deutsche Welle reported:
“This comes after Australia authorized a ban on use of social media for youngsters beneath 16 years of age with no exemptions for parental consent or preexisting accounts. It is without doubt one of the strictest laws a rustic has positioned on social platforms. Whereas particulars on how the ban might be enforced are scarce, the onus to uphold it is going to fall on the platforms.”
Requested if he was ready to interact with Musk over the ban, he stated he’ll ‘discuss to anybody’.
“’With regard to Elon Musk, he has an agenda. He’s entitled to push that because the proprietor of X, previously often called Twitter’, Albanese stated.
When the interviewer added that Musk is near US President-elect Donald Trump, Albanese stated, ‘We’ll interact, we’ll interact’.”
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