Elon Musk’s X wins appeal to lift block on Australians seeing Charlie Kirk shooting footage
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/17/elon-musks-x-wins-appeal-to-lift-block-on-australians-seeing-charlie-kirk-shooting-footage
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slickgoat@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 239d
Why doesn't he just fuck off?
This is why billionaires shouldn't exist.
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 239d
I hate the guy too, but this is fairly reasonable.
Online censorship is a bad thing, my guy.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 239d
There is really no societal benefit in showing violence porn though. Everyone who is going to watch it already knows he's dead. It's not showing new hidden information.
I agree that censorship is generally bad, but sensationaliaed sharing of awful footage is also bad. Australia also bans love streams for other terrorist attacks to remove it as a propaganda tool. So, it's not just Kirk, but a policy to reduce extremism.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 239d
Plenty of reasons.
Now make this backfire; make the visuals or sound part of something catchy light and fun.
slickgoat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 237d
It is funny, the guy was talking about 2nd amendment issues at the moment he was wacked in the neck. That's hilarious.
slickgoat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 237d
Know what's worse than censorship? Having a single person in charge of social culture. You can turn him off and he invades any topic with unavoidable invasion. Why, because he can force influence because wealth. I'll take a slice of cutting him off even in the name of censorship.