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Musk sets test for social media without boundaries
The sudden row between Australia and Elon Musk is a test of sovereign writ against the biggest companies – but also where government control of media should begin and end
The row between Australia and the notoriously unfiltered tech billionaire Elon Musk over video footage of the church stabbing in western Sydney, now the subject of terrorist charges, is a big test not just of a sovereign government’s writ against the world’s largest companies, but where government control of free speech and expression rightly begins and ends.
Elon Musk has done something very few have been able to achieve - he’s united Australia’s politicians against him and his social media platform X. David Rowe
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