Why is Elon Musk at war with Australia?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Australia’s PM is at war with Elon Musk - calling him an ‘arrogant billionaire’ - and worse.
He’s fighting to get violent images of a church stabbing in Sydney banned from Twitter/X. Elon Musk says it's censorship and an infringement on free speech. So who is going to win out here - regulation or tech money?
Later, as more immigrants die in the Channel, we ask if Rwanda can act as a deterrent. And - on St. George’s day - what does patriotism mean to you - red and white cuff links? Cups of tea? Or mumbled embarrassment?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | El El Al-Mus has no social conscience or conscience whatsoever. |
| 0:14.8 | I don't know, whatever Elon Musk is on, it says that that's okay to continue to air that |
| 0:19.7 | is absolutely disgusting behaviour. |
| 0:21.9 | And quite frankly, the bloke should be jailed. |
| 0:24.0 | That's Australia's independent legislator, Jackie Lambie, talking about Elon Musk. |
| 0:30.1 | Her views on Elon Musk don't end there. |
| 0:32.9 | Like I've already said, I think he's a social media knob with no social conscience. |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah, a social media knob with no social conscience. Yeah, a social media |
| 0:38.3 | knob with no social conscience. At the heart of all of this is video that is available on X |
| 0:45.3 | of the horrible stabbing that took place at a church in Sydney a week ago. And it raises a question |
| 0:53.7 | that governments around the world are dealing with, |
| 0:57.1 | but it's coming to sharpest focus in Australia, about who is more powerful, the duly elected |
| 1:03.4 | government of the day, or an American tech billionaire. Welcome to the Newsagents. |
| 1:19.0 | The Newsagents. The newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. It's Lewis. And later in the podcast, we're going to be talking about small boats, legislation, the fact that it has now |
| 1:25.4 | passed, but also another five deaths in the channel overnight, including a small child. |
| 1:34.1 | We're going to come on to that. But first we're going to start with Elon Musk, who's been called an arrogant billionaire by none other than Australia's Prime Minister. |
| 1:43.2 | He's essentially clashed over this question |
| 1:46.0 | of what should be allowed to stay on Twitter after that appalling stabbing that John was describing |
| 1:53.1 | in a Sydney church because a federal court in Sydney has granted what they're calling a temporary |
| 1:59.1 | global ban. So it's not just in Australia |
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