X ‘should comply’ with Australian legislation: James Paterson

Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson says X “should comply” with Australian legislation as the country can decide what its “permissible limits of free speech” are. X owner Elon Musk has taken another swipe at the Australian government, saying, ‘The Australian people want the truth. X is the only one standing up for their rights.’ It follows the Federal Court ordering the social media platform to remove footage of last week’s Sydney church stabbing. “Elected or unelected, I don’t want foreign governments deciding what Australians can access on X or any other social media platform, particularly I don’t want authoritarian governments requiring Twitter or X or any other company to take down things,” Mr Paterson told Sky News Australia. “It’s for democracies to decide what’s accessible within our own borders and what our permissible limits of free speech are. “We’ve done so; we’ve passed legislation; X should comply with that.”