‘Backdoor way to control access to the Internet’: Elon Musk slams Albanese for social media age limit
Elon Musk has attacked the Australian Government for the second time this year for what he perceives to be overreach, taking aim at legislated age restrictions for social media.
“Seems like a backdoor way to control access to the Internet by all Australians,” Musk posted on X, in response to PM Anthony Albanese’s announcement of the bill.
Seems like a backdoor way to control access to the Internet by all Australians https://t.co/694yCzWOaB
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 21, 2024
In April, the Australian Federal Court ordered Musk to remove posts on X that featured videos of a stabbing in a Sydney church, after he refused to comply with takedown requests.
The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant ordered the removal of “gratuitous or offensive violence with a high degree of impact or detail” within 24 hours, to which Musk tweeted: “The Australian censorship commissar is demanding *global* content bans!”
Musk complied with the order, then immediately threatened to launch a legal challenge – taunting Anthony Albanese on X along the way.
Anthony Albanese has been clear on his opinion of Musk, telling Today’s Sarah Abo in the wake of the Sydney stabbing that the entire debacle “just shows his arrogance”.
“He is an egoist, he is someone who is totally out of touch with the values that Australian families have,” Albanese said, labelling Musk’s rebranding of Twitter “a vanity project for himself rather than for the people who are consumers”.
As it stands, diplomacy between the Australian Prime Minister and the US leader of the Department of Government Efficiency seems frosty.
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