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Dr Dana McKay, Associate Dean of Interaction, Technology and Information in the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT, said on Tuesday that “not all censorship is bad when it is applied to situations like graphic and illegal content”.
“There are a range of things that we, as a society, agree shouldn’t be posted online,” she said in a statement.
“These platforms promote content that gets more engagement — be it reactions, views or shares — and this increases the risk that users could see certain types of content without wanting to. In the case of violent material, this could have severe negative consequences for people’s mental health, especially if they have experienced serious violence themselves which it is estimated up to 41 per cent of Australians have.”
While the Coalition has joined forces with Labor in a bipartisan push to force social media giants like X to comply with Australian law, some conservatives have publicly voiced support for Musk.
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“The PM seems more upset about a video of a Christian Bishop being attacked than the ACTUAL act of a Christian Bishop being attacked. SHAMEFUL!” he wrote on X.
United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet wrote, “Let’s be very clear, the government does not care about Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel.
They care about taking down X as X poses a threat to their control of information and narratives. The government and their bureaucrats themselves are regular spreaders of misinformation.
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2GB hostBen Fordhamsaid on Tuesday that the PM was trying to argue the video of the church attack “is a case of people spreading misinformation”.
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