Australian PM hits back at Musk after 'fascists' quip

How a real violent video is supposed to be misinformation ?

How says this is misinformation and this is not ?

Aussie government just wants to hide some truths when it suits its own rationale.

Adults are mature enough to report when an illegal post is on line and don't need such control.

Do you want people to go to prison when they say something stupid at the bar ? Because that is what it is, just the means to communicate it changes.

Truth hurts, Albanese. If you can't handle the heat stay out of the fascist legislating kitchen.

Musk said correctly. Musk was right...

"Fine Anthony … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life,"

Elon Musk, CEO of X and total creep.

Musk: 1, Albanese: -1

That’s my score after the dopey guy suggested that his government be responsible for kids internet use rather than their parents.

I suspect I might be shocked if I were to investigate what other stuff this chump believes…

How a real violent video is supposed to be misinformation ?

It's not. Violent and terrorist videos are a separate category of content that can be banned in Australia.

Tony is one who will decide what is truth and what is misinformation.

read between lines.

anything told against official gov propaganda line will be labellled as misinformation or in this forum term-OFF TOPIC.say if we are not antichinese,antirussian,proLGBTI and we dont support UA?

censorship?highly likely so.

where is your freedom of speech guaranteed by law and constitution Tony???

so some of us who may disagree with your policies have to be silenced?did i get it right Tony?

are you lost Tony???

Clown world politicans of the Anglosphere and the EU unite, you have nothing to fear but your own electorates!

Trying to retake the lead in this mad race to the bottom of Western nations Anthony?

I get that a lot of you are Musk supporters and like the idea of freedom he’s pushing, but he’s starting to take it too far. His version of free speech seems to mean literally anything goes—like videos of murder, suicide, rape, or hate speech encouraging violence and mass killings against minorities.

I get that it's tricky, but there’s gotta be a line somewhere. Total freedom without limits can seriously hurt people, and it’s important to know when certain things cross that line.

What do you think Israel and Ukraine is dishing out to the corporate world media 24/7. videos of murder, suicide, rape, or hate speech encouraging violence and mass killings against minorities. It ok by Albo that the corporate media which is lockstep with these governments publish the above but a stabbing is off limit to other platforms the government can't censor. Sound , looks and taste like a Fascist to me.

John-SanToday 04:42 pm JST

What do you think Israel and Ukraine is dishing out to the corporate world media 24/7. videos of murder, suicide, rape, or hate speech encouraging violence and mass killings against minorities.

Again a very bizarre claim unsupported by evidence.

Seems like musk wants all of the benefits and none of the responsibilities of running a company.

But Albanese fired back at Musk on Saturday, saying social media "has a social responsibility".

"If Mr Musk doesn't understand that, that says more about him than it does about my government," he told reporters Saturday.

Yup. Why did Musk buy a social media company in the first place? It is so obviously out of his wheelhouse.

Musk is right. Aussies need to vote out these fascists while they've still got any rights.

It’s a very tough issue.

Platform owners don’t want to take any responsibility for what is posted, and only agree to take down illegal stuff. People who post outright lies say it’s their right, and the consequences of those lies are not their concern if people take action based on them. As a result of all of this, very bad things can happen based on an outright lie. Who is is responsible in this case, or is this just the way life works? One thing for sure, a lot of those lies would not be told if people had to post under their real names.

What about ... what about...? The Musk fan club is out in force today. Come on, he's become an indefensible, unelected, big-mouth with a platform for idiocy. Or maybe you feel the need to denounce the Australian elected government instead.

x needs to burn like a tesla on fire.

"" Australia introduced a "combating misinformation" bill earlier this week, which includes sweeping powers to fine tech giants up to five percent of their annual turnover for breaching online safety obligations. ""

Best news out of Australia in a long time, I am hoping that Musk will either sell X of just give it up.

The irony is that Anthony would be siding with Elon over Russia, Chinese, Iranian, and Venezuelan efforts to introduce and enforce similar laws, for the simple reason that when one is in a rabbit hole of misinformation about something, that misinformation is regarded as truth, and truth misinformation.

Things are being hidden by people with special interests.

The mainstream media does not print the truth so where else can we

find it? I'll stick by Musk's free speech rather than the alternative.

X needs to burn like a Tesla on fire

Lol

Wonder why the person sticking with Musk's 'free speech' (which has featured banning, shadow banning, and just pushing to the bottom of every feed, human rights activists and reporters showing the 'wrong things') hasn't decided to be on TikTok?

It is sad that Australia has drifted so far away from reality and freedoms.

musk is only interested in trying to increase x user engagement and publicity. the more outrageous posts there are, the more people engage and the more those posts are linked.

the more people engage, the more advertisers he hopes to bring back to the x dumpster fire.

he’s just another tyrant, angry that people don’t do whatever he says to do.

Musk does not want freedom of speech, he wants the freedom to post outright lies and attempt to convince the dullards that such lies are in fact truth. Its all income for social media barons. No oversight, no moderators just the freedom to spread BS and in the end hurt people.

Laws that protect freedom of speech are needed while confronting and shutting down provable lies and BS used to influence elections and peoples spending. People like Musk are unable to self regulate, so outside regulation is needed. Stop complaining about a problem you helped create Mr Musk. Truth still matters.

RichardPearceSep. 14 09:13 pm JST

The irony is that Anthony would be siding with Elon over Russia, Chinese, Iranian, and Venezuelan efforts to introduce and enforce similar laws, for the simple reason that when one is in a rabbit hole of misinformation about something, that misinformation is regarded as truth, and truth misinformation.

China information can only be shared in China. The truth can be shared among the other 7 billion people.

M. Musk has never ask for illegal content to be part of free speech.

Many people fon't understand and are following the mainstream media hence staying misinformed.

M. Musk asks X to follow every law, but banning political opponents opinion, critical factual observations and whatsoever which can't be demonstrated as false is part of free speech if not illegal.

That is what he has always claimed.

musk thinks outrageous lies are fine. he posts them himself. and that’s ok with you guys, apparently.

and fascism is also the combining of government and industry, just like the guy who built a business on government subsidies.

Jonathan Prin

That is what he has always claimed.

He has claimed, but he has never delivered. If you counter his own opinions, you find your account deleted. Hardly free speech.

Musk, the guy who is engineer, self made man, having genius ideas, and people think he has the IQ of an 18 year old.

Better to look in the mirror first.

Explain the lies of M. Musk to me, and I never heard deletion of account criticising M. Musk. Never.

Of course, if you use hate speech, you will be removed because it is the law.

On the contrary before he bought Twitter, you would be censored for everything which is not woke enough, so even for ideas and opinions.

But Albanese fired back at Musk on Saturday, saying social media "has a social responsibility".

> "If Mr Musk doesn't understand that, that says more about him than it does about my government," he told reporters Saturday.

Hmm he didn't deny it

Anyway I agree that social media, it's media just like traditional media, has a social responsibility, foremost of which to uphold everyone's freedom of speech

Of course like all rights , freedom of speech has limits. Does musk allow expressions that are against the law on x?

If yes charge him

What do they call men who fawn over those they regard as alphas? There seem to be a lot of them about. Trump has a whole army of them too.