The last few weeks have been painful for Australia. She experienced two terrorist attacks shortly after each other, the first one killed six people in a shopping center, the second one injured several people. And it is the footage from the latter that is spreading widely on the Internet. It was broadcast live.
Already on April 16, the special Australian Internet Security Authority ordered the company Meta – which includes Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp – and Elon Musk’s social network X to delete this violent explicit material and gave them 24 hours to do so. The first company behaved to Canberra’s satisfaction and responded quickly, the second did not. According to Musk’s network, the said violent content “does not violate the rules (networks) X on violent expression”.
What do the X Network rules say about violent speech?
Users will be in breach if:
- they threaten violence;
- they express a desire for violence;
- incite violence;
- they celebrate violence.
In cases imaging violence Company X describes in detail how it hides the content of posts from the eyes of users who do not want to see it behind a warning about the content displaying violence.
Users are required to mark sensitive content as sensitive. The social network then hides it behind the mentioned notification.
A violation of this rule is considered:
- targeted sharing of unsolicited images or videos that contain explicit content, adult nudity and sexual behavior,
- including adult nudity or sexual behavior in a live video, profile picture or header, banners or community cover photo.
Musk accused the Australian government of censorship. He also hinted that the current ruling, which imposes a ban on malicious material on the X Network, would mean that individual countries could have power over “the entire internet”.
“The prime minister thinks (Australia Albanese)that he should have powers over the whole Earth?” Musk asked rhetorically on his network under one of the posts on the case.
Although society is threatened
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