As Elon Musk provoked worldwide attention for his fight against the Australian take-down order, the Coalition revealed it was in favour of barring young children from digital platforms.
The Coalition says young children should be blocked from social media to protect them from violent content, and age verification made compulsory, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese feuds with billionaire Elon Musk over his refusal to take down footage of the Sydney church stabbing.
“We don’t go ‘hey, let’s show a 10-year-old an X-rated movie’ and nobody is suggesting we should. And yet we’re somehow supposed to accept that happens on social media and it’s OK.” Late on Monday, the eSafety Commissioner sprung a legal injunction on X with minimal notice and succeeded in winning an interim Federal Court order to hide dozens of links showing an alleged 16-year-old terrorist strike Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel during a live-streamed service.
“Should the eSafety Commissar in Australia have authority over all countries on Earth?” Musk posted. At the same time as senior Coalition MPs such as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton condemned Musk, right-wing and libertarian critics joined Musk in condemning Inman Grant on free speech grounds.
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