Andrew Bolt: Anthony Albanese’s war against Elon Musk getting more vicious
The PM and his senior minister are playing the class war card against X boss Elon Musk and their abuse is the kind of “poison” these hypocrites complain is all over the social media platform.
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Anthony Albanese’s war against X/Twitter boss Elon Musk keeps getting more vicious, cynical, hypocritical and also dangerous – to you.
The Prime Minister and his senior minister are playing the class war card against Musk, and abusing him for saying Albanese’s eSafety Commissioner shouldn’t be able to ban the world from seeing the stabbing attack in Sydney on a Christian bishop.
Their abuse has been the kind of “poison” these hypocrites complain is all over X: claims that Musk is an “egotist”, “egotistical billionaire” and “narcissistic billionaire”.
Albanese himself savages Musk as a “totally out of touch … arrogant billionaire” fighting “for the right to sow division” in a mere “vanity project”.
Beware: abuse is a sign of a scoundrel all out of arguments.
So is hypocrisy.
But before I expose that, here are two important bits of background.
First, the Left already hated Musk because he bought Twitter to reverse its censorship of conservatives.
It had even banned Donald Trump.
Second, Musk really is serious about free speech.
That’s why he resisted when Albanese’s eSafety commissioner, a disgruntled former Twitter employee, told Musk to take down the stabbing footage or she’d fine him up to $785,000 a day.
Musk responded by tweeting we faced a choice here between free speech on one hand and censorship and propaganda on the other.
Is he wrong?
He’s also asked a key question: “Should the eSafety Commissar (an unelected official) in Australia have authority over all countries on Earth” on what’s seen on social media?
But to the hypocrisy.
Why is the government so hellbent on censoring this video, when there’s so many more worse ones on X/Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram?
Yes, it shows a graphic and shocking act of violence.
Yet the bishop is already out of hospital.
Let me now contrast.
Right now on the ABC, for instance, I can see bodycam footage of a killing – of white police from Alice Springs shooting in self defence an Aboriginal man, Kumanjayi Walker, who’d stabbed them with scissors.
Someone actually died here, and this shooting also caused dangerous division, including black protests, calls for “payback” and the spearing of a policeman.
So why is that video of a fatal shooting still allowed even on the national broadcaster’s site, when a non-fatal stabbing must be banned from the gaze of the entire world?
Is it because the shooting would only stir up Aboriginal hatred of whites, but the stabbing of a Christian bishop might stir up feeling about Muslims?
And here is the issue, I suspect.
The video shows a Christian bishop being stabbed, allegedly, by a boy from a Muslim family.
The government is now freaking: what might some Christians do if they see it?
How might some Muslims react?
What’s more, the rest of us might then demand the government slash its out-of-control immigration intake, reverse its divisive multiculturalism, and tackle the new tribalism it’s recklessly encouraged.
No, much easier to demand the video be censored, and pose as a plucky Labor Party at war with a psychopathic billionaire.
This is less about the violence than the politics, and would set an alarming precedent.
Will we be banned from seeing the next terrorist attack?
Any violence that doesn’t suit the government?
How about footage this week of a pack of ferals in Sydney physically attacking a delivery driver?
Imagine if other countries take Albanese’s cue, and also ban X/Twitter from letting the rest of us see what’s really happening in their countries.
No, this stinks of hypocrisy and political opportunism, especially when you see how little Albanese’s government is doing about the people really promoting hate speech and division online.
It’s done flat nothing about Aussie Cossack, an Australian fugitive from police who’s spent almost two years hiding in the Russian consulate in Sydney, where he’s paid to post pro-Putin and anti-Israel disinformation, including false rumours that the Bondi Junction killer was actually a Jew called Benjamin Cohen.
Nor has it done a thing to stop some Sydney hate preachers spreading their filth on social media, including incitements to kill Jews, branding them “rats”, “bloodthirsty” and people who “love to shed blood”.
This is a con.
Albanese is playing class politics, distracting you from the real causes of our division, and using this excuse to push for even more censorship – for his controversial “misinformation” bill to let governments define what’s misinformation and then ban you from posting it on social media.
It’s a wicked and dangerous mix.
Don’t fall for it.
Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Anthony Albanese’s war against Elon Musk getting more vicious
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