Musk targets Australian senator and gun laws in deepening dispute over violent video
Elon Musk targeted Australia’s gun laws and a senator in an escalating battle over a court order to remove video on his platform X of a bishop being stabbed.
SYDNEY, Australia — Elon Musk said an Australian senator should be jailed and suggested the country’s gun laws were meant to stop resistance against its “fascist government,” escalating his battle over a court order to remove video posts of a bishop being stabbed.
After Australia’s federal court told Musk’s platform X to temporarily stop showing video of a knife attack on an Assyrian bishop during a church service in Sydney a week earlier, Musk accused the country’s leaders of trying to censor the internet, prompting an outpouring of condemnation from lawmakers.
One senator, Jacqui Lambie, deleted her X account to protest the publication of the footage and called for other politicians to do the same, saying Musk had “no social conscience or conscience whatsoever.” She added that Musk should be jailed.
When an unnamed X user posted overnight that it was Lambie who “should be in jail for censoring free speech on X,” Musk replied to his 181 million followers, “Absolutely. She is an enemy of the people of Australia.”
A representative for Lambie, an independent senator for the small island state of Tasmania, declined to comment.
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