It's increasingly hard to tell if this bloke is either inherently or wilfully ignorant, but either way, he doesn't get how sensible government regulators work. Funny how he doesn't seem to get this fired up about taking down stuff the Chinese CP asks him to...
It's also astonishing that anyone would so desperately want to publish what essentially amount to uncensored, context-free snuff videos on his website that he's prepared to take on a nation-state with democratically enacted laws.
Senator Lambie is known to get fired up about things - perhaps somewhat (a lot?) more than the average punter - but good on her anyway. Time to bid good riddance to Elmo IMHO.
This is a good explainer about the issue the Australian government is having with Musk.
It's hardly an onerous thing they're asking him to do, but he's typically being a wanker about it anyway because he's a spoilt, irresponsible man-baby:
Oh Elmo, you may be relentless at... well... being a massive dickhead, but you have never encountered any single human more relentlessly committed to being furiously angry at stuff.
May the gods (or whatever) help anybody who is unfortunate enough to find themselves between Jacqui and a camera crew for, oh, I dunno, the next decade or so while she systematically airs her grievances against Elon Musk.
@DyDave The Aussies don't fuck around when it comes to video of horrific incidents.
No, we don't, and we like it that way.
The one in question here involves a bishop being stabbed in a church by an apparently troubled young fella who happens to be Muslim. There's already been a riot that seemed to be motivated by some angry sectarianism, and the e-safety commissioner is just trying to calm things down.
Musk is wrong about everything on this one.
@DyDave fines can be levied as percent of income or wealth... there are a few countries that do that. also, putting CEOs in prison for certain things might be a good deterrent
That's the kinda thing I mean.
This is like the 'Gilded Age' all over again, and we don't have the tools to deal with it any more than we could have ever dealt with the likes of Rockefeller, etc., back then. They're too rich.
@DyDave "We" might not have imagined that wealth concentration, but the people concentrating it sure did. They've been working on that shit for a while.
To begin with, what did you think would happen if you did all the work, but let the person who told you to do it take the profit and dribble you a wage? They weren't ever planning to share.
People have been falling for the grift that jobs come from bosses for a long time now.
@DyDave Hah, I mean... it's a textbook example of "Tell me you don't understand compliance, without telling me you don't understand compliance."
And if he thought the EU was the boogie man, wait 'til he discovers that Aussie law has sharp teeth as well. ;)
Hope so 🤞
He takes down stuff fast enough when Erdogan or Modi tell him to.
Yup. He doesn't hesitate a second when it suits his worldview.
Imagine how upset he'll be when his solicitor and his expensive silk tell him that the First Amendment to the US Constitution won't do him any good in the Australian Federal Court? It'll blow what he's convinced himself is his free-speech absolutist mind 🤯
We need to rethink how we penalise people like Elmo and massive companies like the tech giants. When we decided on the fines and such, we never imagined the rate at which money concentrates into an ever-decreasing number of people/entities.