International Politics

[Uncle]

I roll the dice on kulture, social media, elon, dumb news stories, or even other forums and land on international news, since it also features an embarrassing recent australia story and potato is available for comment

The recent attacks in Australia are a horrific assault on free society. Our condolences go out to those who have been affected, and we stand with the Australian people in calling for those responsible to be brought to justice.

Following these events, the Australian eSafety Commissioner ordered X to remove certain posts in Australia that publicly commented on the recent attack against a Christian Bishop. These posts did not violate X’s rules on violent speech.

X believes that eSafety’s order was not within the scope of Australian law and we complied with the directive pending a legal challenge.

X has now received a demand from the eSafety Commissioner that X globally withhold these posts or face a daily fine of $785,000 AUD (about $500,000 USD).

This was a tragic event and we do not allow people to praise it or call for further violence. There is a public conversation happening about the event, on X and across Australia, as is often the case when events of major public concern occur.

While X respects the right of a country to enforce its laws within its jurisdiction, the eSafety Commissioner does not have the authority to dictate what content X’s users can see globally.  We will robustly challenge this unlawful and dangerous approach in court.

Global takedown orders go against the very principles of a free and open internet and threaten free speech everywhere.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/x-vows-robustly-challenge-australia-order-remove-stabbing-posts-2024-04-20/

here's the video you're not allowed to see:

in summary:

a muslim stabbed a christian bishop while screaming allahu ackbar

australia doesn't like that this shows thing people expect to happen based on past precedent actually happening, would rather pretend like "reason for stabbing is unknown, we're still investigating"
 

demands twitter take down the video

twitter blocks it in australia as requested

they say oh no, we meant take it down WORLDWIDE, you see we believe we should have the power to censor anything we like globally on a whim, or else you pay us half a million dollars daily for every day it's not taken down

also they want elon jailed for not taking down this post

potato what is going on over there