Elon Musk will sue Australia for ordering X to remove a hateful post by an anti-trans activist
Elon Musk will sue Australia for ordering X to remove a hateful post by an anti-trans activist
The billionaire owner is backing anti-trans provocateur Billboard Chris in a battle over
Do it! Burn your money fighting a major government. Then maybe you can be poor and I can never hear about you again.
Unfortunately he's burning the governments money too so I wouldn't be too excited about his constant lawmongering.
I think often cases are won or settled based on who has the most money to keep them going.
Dude you don't get to complain about hearing about elon on a sub dedicated to him.
This sub exists because of the over-headlinification everything he does gets.
Elon is gonna lose. You can call it free speech, but Australia doesn't have free speech.
Freer than the US. Yous guys can call each other cunts and it's cool. We can't do that!
I've actually started using this more regularly recently to help spread the good word here in America, cunt.
Also in the US corporations can sue people for defamation, unlike in Australia.
Under the uniform defamation legislation which applies in every State and Territory, a corporation can't sue for defamation unless it is an “excluded corporation”. An excluded corporation includes a not for profit or a company which employs fewer than 10 people.
Americans really like the idea of being "the most free country" when that's just objectively not true.
Bring it on, crybaby. My country's legal system is pretty fucked, but not like the US, so I expect this may actually backfire on him.
Can someone give this fucker a hobby so he shuts the fuck up for a while.
This IS his hobby!
Yeah when i was typing it i thought that as well..
He seems pretty emotionally fragile - can we pressure him into doing stuff? i.e if people start posting stuff on Twitter, such as:
"I heard Elon musk was too cowardly to go and film the ice wall at the edge of the Earth. I bet he's one of those lame libtard round-Earthers"
If enough people chipped in, surely we could make this happen.
Elon Musk would be so cool if he did some of that skyscraper parkour. Not many are brave enough for something as awesome as that. All my friends and I would buy Teslas even at the price before it was dropped if its CEO was that cool.
The boys over at Internet Today on YouTube are right; Musk has a lawsuit fetish.
Likely one of m-a-n-y….
Big deal. If he ripped a fart in public, he’d sue the mexican restaurant he ate at the night before.
He uses lawsuits to bludgeon because he can afford an unlimited number of them. All because China Inc saved Tesla and made him rich…can’t wait to see him lose it all to BYD (who he smugly laughed at a decade back - who’s laughing now, Chuckles?)
Him and trump are that fucking kid that would yell "oh yeah, well I'll sue you (with daddy's money" because they never had their jaw broken.
"The supreme court of australia judges that australia is innocent. Now pay our court fees sucker." That's a PR move.
that's right elon, waste more money
going to 0 and looking forward to it
I'm not knowledgeable in Australian law. Would someone more well versed be able to hit me with a tldr of how this would work? Does Australia have "free speech" similar to what I understand as an American? Does the government there have the legal authority to make that sort of request? I'm not really worried about whether they should or shouldn't have that authority, or the general ethics surrounding this,I just kind of want to know what the law says
Australia has implied freedom of speech only, and only with respect to political and economic communication AFAIK.
https://www.vgso.vic.gov.au/implied-constitutional-freedom-political-communication
Like many countries Australia has ruled against hate speech in the past and such speech is not protected.
For example the racial hatred act limits speech: https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/racial-hatred-act-what-racial-hatred-act
There are also laws governing content on social media platforms, including both older media standards and newer laws designed to regulate companies such as X or Facebook.
https://www.esafety.gov.au/newsroom/whats-on/online-safety-act
There are other relevant laws to consider as well but while I am a cyber security expert and not a lawyer I don’t expect Musk to have a good time in Australian courts.
Americans don't even have free speech. They can only freely speak what is tolerated by the majority lol
Correct. Freedom of Speech does not imply freedom from consequence and only protects you from the government. The State can't tell you what you're allowed say and can't jail you for saying them (outside of a limited band of things that have been thoroughly litigated). However, that does nothing to modify the social contract. If you say something that most people don't like, they're going to get you to stop saying it one way or another.
Neat.
I've no idea how somebody can have so much money, yet still have a face like a sock filled with marbles.
Gavin bellsing is at it again
That's a bootable offence!
Another worthwhile and fruitful decision from Elmo Nazi. Yes, it’s easy to see why so many considered him a genius.
Didn't this guy die yesterday?
Nah, knowing our luck, the cunt will live to 120.
Nice cunt on cunt action.
Wonderful title. So is he suing all of Australia the country and the dirt in it as a whole or each and individual Australian including the wildlife?
I hate Elon and I hate the person who made the article. People can hate two things at once.
he's suing the australian government and I think that's pretty clear from the title
Behold, the reading comprehension of a Musk fan
Dont have to like Elon to not like terrible reporting. People can hate two things at once.