Musk sets test for social media without boundaries


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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 On Monday, Australia’s eSafety Commission took out an emergency Federal Court injunction to block footage of...