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by Staple_Diet 763 days ago
The video in question is a recording of a terrorist attack, a stabbing of a priest in a church. The video gives no missing context to the incident, and risks being used as recruiting material if allowed to disseminate. But hey, if you want to defend people's right to view content like this then go ahead. Personally I think it's irresponsible of X, or any platform, to allow such content.

Also as others mentioned, X is not as prolific as you think, especially since the rebrand, and withdrawing from the AU market would just create more space for its competitors to take over. The sentiment here after a few recent public stabbing attacks would be in favour of the Govt, not a murder-porn platform.
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000ooo000 763 days ago
Downvoted for the final remark amounting Twitter to a "murder-porn platform". It is obviously a bit disingenuous to suggest that is its primary purpose.
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Staple_Diet 763 days ago
That is fair, it is a hyperbolic statement.
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techjamie 763 days ago
The problem is it never just stops at terrorists.

See also: The US spying on every citizen, and international communication, in the name of maybe they'll find a terrorist in there somewhere.

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Staple_Diet 763 days ago
Yes of course the Patriot Act ushered in all kinds of mischief and scope creep. But the case here, in my opinion, is a legitimate one. We know videos such as this fuel further extremism on both sides of the divide. The fact that a Govt even needs to request X take down a video of a violent terrorist act speaks volumes about Musk, the same man that banned an account that tracked his private jet using publicly available data... So 'freedom of speech' when it suits?
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