Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has known as Elon Musk an ‘arrogant billionaire’ in an escalating spat over X’s resistance to take away footage of a terrorist church stabbing of Orthodox Bishop Emmanuel of the Good Shepherd Church.

The absurd element is that Australian authorities need the content material eliminated for individuals all around the world – which they clearly don’t have any jurisdiction over!

BBC reported:

“On Monday, an Australian court ordered Mr Musk’s social media firm – formerly called Twitter – to hide videos of last week’s attack in Sydney. X previously said it would comply ‘pending a legal challenge’.”

The Prime Minister’s criticism comes after Musk used a meme to ridicule the Australian authorities’s thirst for censorship.

Albanese instructed the press that Mr. Musk ‘thinks he’s above the legislation but additionally above widespread decency.’

“Last week Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, an independent regulator, threatened X and other social media companies with hefty fines if they did not remove videos of the stabbing at the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church, which police have called a terror attack. X has argued the order is ‘not within the scope of Australian law’.”

The eSafety commissioner sought a courtroom injunction after complaining that X was permitting customers outdoors Australia to proceed accessing footage.

“‘I find it extraordinary that X chose not to comply and are trying to argue their case’, Mr Albanese instructed a press briefing.

In a subsequent sequence of on-line posts, Mr. Musk wrote: ‘I’d wish to take a second to thank the PM for informing the general public that this platform is the one truthful one’. One other depicted a Wizard of Oz-style path to ‘freedom’ resulting in an X brand.”

Don’t take my phrase for it, simply ask the Australian PM! pic.twitter.com/ZJBKrstStQ

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 22, 2024

Musk additionally criticized eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant personally, describing her because the ‘Australian censorship commissar.’

“Mr. Albanese defended Ms. Inman Grant, saying she was protecting Australians. ‘Social media needs to have social responsibility with it. Mr Musk is not showing any’, he said.”

The platform was given 24 hours to adjust to Monday night’s injunction, and an additional listening to into the matter is anticipated within the coming days.

Albanese’s warfare in opposition to freedom of speech just isn’t restricted to X, as he now seeks to have all social media strike down MEMES of him.

Watch: Australia’s Albanese is at warfare with MEMES, now.