Elon Musk vs the Globalist Censors

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The clip shows the horrible assault on the Assyrian bishop, Mar Mari Emmanuel. He was stabbed in his church in Sydney on 15 April allegedly by a teenage boy yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’. Emmanuel suffered grisly injuries but survived. The livestream of his sermon captured the stabbing and inevitably, it went viral. Ms Inman Grant has instructed both X (formerly Twitter) and Meta (owner of Facebook and Instagram) to take the clip down – everywhere. Meta has complied, but X has pushed back, on the sound basis that the Oz government should not get to dictate what every soul on Earth may see.

Elon Musk, boss of X and scourge of censors, has actually kind of complied with the commissioner’s instructions. He’s ‘geoblocked’ tweets that show the stabbing, meaning people in Oz can’t see them. Job done: Aussie censors don’t want Aussie folk watching this clip, and now they can’t. But that’s not good enough for Australia’s overlords of online safety. Australians could still use a VPN – a Virtual Private Network – to trick the internet into thinking they’re somewhere other than Australia and thus see the clip. So, they say, X must erase it everywhere, in every territory, for every population.

It is a truly extraordinary demand. Even the coverage in Musk-sceptical media outlets cannot help but capture the chilling nature of this act of global censorship.
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