“If we consider the disinformation and disinformation of two shocking incidents in Sydney this month and how this social combustion spread around the world, we see the consequences of this indifference and defiance.”
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Burgess sounded the alarm about artificial intelligence making radicalization of extremists “easier and faster” just weeks after confirming the 16-year-old who stabbed a Sydney priest was allegedly motivated by religious ideology .
“This is not hypothetical. ASIO is investigating a number of Australians who belong to a nationalist and racist extremist network. They use an encrypted chat platform to communicate with offshore extremists, share vile propaganda, post tips on homemade weapons and discuss how spark a race war.”
Late on Monday, the Electronic Security Commissioner issued a court order against X with minimal notice and managed to win an interim order from the Federal Court to hide dozens of links showing an alleged 16-year-old terrorist strike, Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel during a live service. .
X's lawyers claimed the platform had already geoblocked the video so that users in Australia could not watch it unless they were using a VPN service that allowed them to watch content overseas. But the Australian watchdog pushed back, arguing the videos should not be allowed to remain online and could potentially be used to radicalise.
Musk spent days arguing that the request to withdraw the Inman Grant amounted to a single nation trying to dictate the content viewed by people abroad, likening it to a communist regime censor.
“Should the Electronic Security Commissioner (an unelected official) in Australia have authority over every country on Earth?” Musk posted.
The regulator said it expected another court hearing later this week in which a temporary order requiring X to hide the videos would be debated and potentially expanded. The commissioner will also seek fines of up to $782,000 for each day that X failed to comply.
“That's an egotist,” Albanese said of Musk on Tuesday.
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“He is someone who is completely out of touch with the values that Australian families have, and that is causing great distress.”
“I think he's damaging his own Twitter brand, which has now become X. He clearly sees this as a vanity project for himself.”
At the same time as senior coalition MPs such as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton condemned Musk, right-wing and libertarian critics joined Musk in condemning Inman Grant on free speech grounds.
LNP senator Matt Canavan said Albanese had “caused further division by brazenly tying a violent video to his agenda to ban certain types of speech”, while independent senator Ralph Babet posted a video of the 'stabbing church and said: “Fuck yourself.” to Inman Grant.
Daniel Wild, a senior advocate at the Institute of Public Affairs think tank, said Inman Grant was an activist whose powers had been extended just to protect children online.
“He will continue to expand his role in policing the Internet to censor debate in a way that is consistent with his own ideological views,” Wild said.
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