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So a country of 28 million wants to tell the 8+ billion people what to see ? Good luck with that. If X (twitter) shuts their doors in Australia, it would be j
by jmclnx 3y ago
So a country of 28 million wants to tell the 8+ billion people what to see ? Good luck with that.
If X (twitter) shuts their doors in Australia, it would be just a blip on its bottom line, but people in Australia will probably toss the existing Gov out of the country :)
Will be interesting to watch.
- beeboobaa3 3y agoUS bigcorps are already making such decisions for the rest of the world constantly.
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoOn their servers, as is their right.
- beeboobaa3 2y agoHardly. I don't get to murder people in my home either.
- theshackleford 3y agolol your dreaming.
- eynsham 3y agoI suspect that Labor will lose the next federal elections, but what makes you think that /Twitter/ of all things would make the difference? (Or is the conditional not meant to be read that way)?
- vkou 3y agoYou grossly overestimate how much of a crap people give about twitter. Tiktok has orders of magnitude more engagement, and the US can just ban it with the stroke of a pen, with no political blowback.
- toast0 3y agoPeople who use twitter have an over exagerated sense of how many people use twitter. I think, in part, because of how many media people use(d) it. But there's a ton of people out there who would at best not care if it disappeared, and more likely be happy that everyone stopped asking people to follow them on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
- jacobn 3y agoCan we all agree to just call it X-Twitter? Clear & concise.
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoEx-Twitter would be more ironic.
- krapp 3y agoNo. It's just Twitter. X is some rich manchild's delusion.
- O1111OOO 3y ago> Can we all agree to just call it X-Twitter? Clear & concise. I agree. I use X/Twitter myself. As you can see from the comments, there's a lot of hate toward the site (and the owner). Some of it outright passionate, some passive-aggressive. I think that people who use "X, the site formerly known as Twitter" are just telling you in advance how they feel about X/Twitter (and/or Elon Musk).
- MiguelX413 3y agoI think it helps to show user numbers to such people to bring them back to reality.
- jsheard 3y agoSomething similar already happened with a censorship demand made by India: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/twitter-takes-down-post-on-home-minister-globally/article66711854.ece https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/twitter-takes-down-po... The difference being that when a country of 1.4 billion asked Twitter to jump, Twitter asked "how high?"
- legostormtroopr 3y agoThe difference here is India demanded the tweets be blocked in India. I don't agree with that, but they are enforcing Indian laws for Indian citizens within India. The Australian government is demanding tweets be blocked for Australians everywhere, including Australian's using VPNs or Australians overseas - effectively claiming that Australian law has jurisdiction globally, and turning this into a global censorship demand. Thats why the EFF has stepped in. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/business/twitter-india-lawsuit.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/business/twitter-india-la...
- jsheard 3y agoRead the article again, the Tweets in question were blocked everywhere in response to a legal demand, and to my knowledge no explanation was ever given. They appeared to be blocked using the mechanism that is normally used to enforce country-specific block requests, but in that case the country was set to "Worldwide".
- verve_rat 3y agoAnd the US applies its tax laws to all US citizens worldwide and coerces foreign financial institutions into compliance.
- SllX 3y agoWe (in the US) should be bringing out the pitchforks for this nonsense but I have never seen another American not living overseas care in the slightest.
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- Staple_Diet 3y agoThe video in question is a recording of a terrorist attack, a stabbing of a priest in a church. The video gives no missing context to the incident, and risks being used as recruiting material if allowed to disseminate. But hey, if you want to defend people's right to view content like this then go ahead. Personally I think it's irresponsible of X, or any platform, to allow such content. Also as others mentioned, X is not as prolific as you think, especially since the rebrand, and withdrawing from the AU market would just create more space for its competitors to take over. The sentiment here after a few recent public stabbing attacks would be in favour of the Govt, not a murder-porn platform.
- techjamie 3y agoThe problem is it never just stops at terrorists. See also: The US spying on every citizen, and international communication, in the name of maybe they'll find a terrorist in there somewhere.
- Staple_Diet 3y agoYes of course the Patriot Act ushered in all kinds of mischief and scope creep. But the case here, in my opinion, is a legitimate one. We know videos such as this fuel further extremism on both sides of the divide. The fact that a Govt even needs to request X take down a video of a violent terrorist act speaks volumes about Musk, the same man that banned an account that tracked his private jet using publicly available data... So 'freedom of speech' when it suits?
- 000ooo000 3y agoDownvoted for the final remark amounting Twitter to a "murder-porn platform". It is obviously a bit disingenuous to suggest that is its primary purpose.
- Staple_Diet 3y agoThat is fair, it is a hyperbolic statement.
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