Friday, 26 April 2024

Australia tries to censor the internet: Su-lin Tan agrees

"PM Anthony Albanese reels in Elon Musk over harmful content – time to cast net wider”. 

Really? 

My comment at the above site this morning
Misinformation from columnist Su-lin Tan. She doesn’t mention that X removed the video from Australia. But Albanese and she wanted it removed from the WORLD.
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Why on earth are people like Tan calling for more censorship? Before the above kerfuffle, we had Australia trying to censor legitimate posts by "Billboard Chris" about chemical castration and surgery of minors. All this is valid debate. Australia is trying to shut it down.
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I’m really sad that people like Su-lin Tan and the SCMP are in favour of censorship. Yes, they are. That’s the nub of it. As Elon Musk has said: “Moderation is a propaganda word for censorship”. 

Tan says that Australian PM, Anthony Albanese, didn’t stand up for Australian Julian Assange, to the same extent. But then, she says, Biden is “not just another CEO”. No, he isn’t. He’s a doddery puppet president who will be gone while Elon Musk will remain one of the most consequential business founders in human history. Also: doesn’t failure of Albanese to stand up for Assange show cowardice?

ADDED: Amazing. The SCMP runs an article supporting the Australian PM's attempts to censor X... yet publishes the very same video clip that the PM is trying to censor. Hypocrisy, much?

ADDED: a heap of people making fun of Albanese demanding that social media take down “fake photographs of my face on other bodies”. Aka, Memes, Albo!