Under the present regime, free speech must always be suppressed in favour of freedom from “hate,” with “hate’ being defined as essentially anything critical of the fundamentals of the regime. Musk, who tried to restore a small amount of free speech to Twitter, faces a “please explain what you are doing” from Australia’s eSafety commissioner, arising from complaints of “hate” from Twitter posts. There is a maximum fine of $700,000 (US$476,000) per day for “continuing breaches.” Hopefully Musk will plunge straight intro court action to address this challenge.
While this story is important, I noticed a key passage in the report given by the Epoch Times, that Australia has no right to free speech: “Rob Nicholls, an associate professor at the University of New South Wales, said there is no right to freedom of speech in Australia, and there is only an “implied right of political communication.”