Australia’s prime minister calls Elon Musk an ‘arrogant billionaire’

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Australia’s Anthony Albanese lashed out at the Tesla chief in a dispute about whether videos from a Sydney church stabbing should be shown on X.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese lashed out at tech mogul Elon Musk on Tuesday, labeling him an “arrogant billionaire” over an ongoing dispute about whether videos from awith the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said his country would “do what’s necessary to take on this arrogant billionaire, who thinks he’s above the law but also above common decency.”

Australia’s federal court late Monday issued an interim injunction ordering X to temporarily hide posts that showed footage of the Sydney church attack, where an Assyrian bishop was stabbed by a teenager during a live stream.“I do not think I’m above the law. Does the PM think he should have jurisdiction over all of Earth?” Musk, referring to Albanese.

“Our concern is that if ANY country is allowed to censor content for ALL countries, which is what the Australian ‘eSafety Commissar’ is demanding, then what is to stop any country from controlling the entire internet?” he The regulator added that other tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Meta, Snap and TikTok had mostly complied with its requests to remove and “reduce further spread of the material.”that his platform has “actually blocked the content in question for Australian IP addresses, pending legal appeal, and it only exists on servers in the USA.”left Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel injured after he was stabbed with a knife at the lectern while delivering a live-streamed sermon.

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