Elon Musk Labels Australian Government ‘Fascists’ Over Social Media Law

Elon Musk Labels Australian Government: Australian centre-left government is “fascists”, claimed Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, on Friday, in regards to the proposed legislation regulating social media companies’ failure to stop misinformation.

Australia’s Labor government on Thursday proposed legislation which might impose a fine of up to 5% of the global revenue on the internet platforms for hosting false information as the country joined a global trend to curb borderless internet giants.

The proposed law would mandate code of conduct to be set by the tech platforms to prevent dangerous half-truth to circulate and get the approval from a regulator. If a platform did not set its standard, the regulator would set one and penalise firms that rejected to adhere to the necessary requirements.

Musk, who views himself as a champion of free speech, responded to a post by an X user linking the Reuters story about the misinformation law with one word: This is why I will call them ‘fascists’ and imply that they are a danger to normal working people, despite all the evidence that actually a fascist movement of over-armed and under-employed young men is the main threat to us all.

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Michelle Rowland, the communications minister, issued an email statement saying that Australian laws must be followed by companies in Australia.

"This bill improves the transparency and accountability of platforms for users and the Australian people," Rowland said.

Reaction from other government lawmakers was ridicule and criticism of Musk, in response to the push against misinformation which he was promoting.

"Elon Musk's had more positions on free speech than the Kama Sutra. When it's in its commercial interests, he is the champion of free speech and when he doesn't like it ... he's going to shut it all down," Government Services Minister Bill Shorten told Channel Nine's breakfast show.

The social media should not display scams, deep fake materials, and live stream violence under the guise of freedom of speech, Jones told ABC television.

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Earlier this year, in April X saw the Australian government go to court to appeal an order from a cyber regulator to take down some comments about the stabbing Bishop in Sydney which made the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese to refer to the SpaceX, Tesla CEO as an arrogant billionaire.

he regulator later on drops the concerned proceedings against X after a defeat in the federal court.

X had managed to prevent Australians from accessing the posts that contained the stabbing but hadn’t deleted it globally on the basis that one nation’s laws should not dictate the affairs of the world wide web.

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