Elon Musk
Stabbing video not offensive enough to be removed, X Corp tells court
X Corp’s legal team argues that footage of a Sydney priest being stabbed does not meet the legal threshold for it to be forcibly removed.
- by Paul Sakkal
Latest
Musk widens legal fight with Australia as Labor pushes social media probe
Elon Musk’s company has launched a case in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to test the merits of the eSafety Commissioner’s order to remove church stabbing videos.
- by Paul Sakkal
Opinion
Electric vehicles
The China ‘game changer’ that just made Elon Musk billions
Elon Musk’s two-day trip to China has paid off with what looks like a major breakthrough for his spluttering electric vehicle maker Tesla.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Australia can fine tech companies $782,500. In other countries, penalties can reach $35 million
Australia is looking at overseas examples as it weighs up increasing the penalties it can issue to major companies, under a review of its online safety regime.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Stabbed bishop returns to pulpit two weeks after alleged terrorist attack
Wearing an eye patch, Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel delivers his sermon and sends words of comfort to his alleged attacker.
- by Angus Dalton
Reform laws and amend attitudes to staunch violence
The causal factors of violence against women and children are well known. Little is new other than cyberstalking and surveillance as tools of abuse. The long-standing problem of agencies competing for inadequate resources does not assist victims or aid in violence reduction. Executive government needs to undertake effective law reform and provide adequate funding for first-class services.
We’ve been worried about kids on the internet for 30 years. Is it time to toughen up on tech?
The alleged stabbing of a Sydney bishop by a teenager has reignited Australian alarm at the realities of online harm, reopening a debate about how to protect children.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
Opinion
Social media
Musk puts seat belts in cybertrucks. Now he must put them in cyberspace
What Elon Musk is doing is rogue even in an industry of rogues. He needs to be strapped in, or it will be maximum drama and maximum Musk.
- by Peter Hartcher
Opinion
Social media
This X-rated man-child is so powerful, he got our politicians to agree on something
Social inequality keeps growing, bombs keep landing, and our planet keeps burning. Yet, our leaders can find common ground only about a social media platform that’s close to its putrid end.
- by Malcolm Knox
Opinion
Social media
The charts that prove social media has bigger dangers than Elon Musk’s ego
The argument about the violent terror attack video is urgent and important. But what if the greater danger is slow and insidious?
- by David Crowe
Stabbed bishop takes swipe at those using attack ‘to serve political purposes’
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel has uploaded an 11-minute statement to YouTube saying he is not opposed to the video of his stabbing remaining on social media.
- by Olivia Ireland