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Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Yes but the Australian govenrment is currently attempting to force Twitter to pull it worldwide. Musk's "muh free speech" argument is obviously a moronic one in this example, but there is a broader question here about whether global take-down orders are a good thing for the internet or if any country should have the right to implement them.
@Ilandar @quoll You mean like the US government's Digital Millennium Copyright Act?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act
I'm not super familiar with how DMCA take-down requests work or where they typically originate from so I couldn't definitively say. Australia has its own copyright laws and in instances of potential copyright infringement companies operating within Australia have historically been held to account by Australian courts as opposed to foreign ones.
in the absence of any treaty or international law it seems pretty absurd that a random bureaucrat in a 3rd rate power should be able to dictate such a thing.
but guess if twitter has an office in aussie, go nuts. musky boy can decide if he want to do business here or fuck off. fingers crossed for the latter to be honest.