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What kind of a sick country would kick [Elon Musk] with a boot?

Let’s be clear, Elon Musk is not a perpetually 10-year-old cartoon child mooning the Prime Minister whilst humming The Star Spangled Banner, but as far as Australian politicians are concerned, he may as well be.

Not unlike Bart Simpson in season six, episode 16: Bart vs Australia, Elon Musk has managed to annoy both sides of Canberra’s political divide to such an extent that there now appears to be bipartisan support for the biggest legislative “booting” of a tech company since the Coalition started billing Meta and Google for news.

Musk’s company X (formerly Twitter) is currently refusing to obey notices from the eSafety commissioner to take down content referencing the Wakeley stabbing in Sydney earlier this month.

In a statement, X said it had received a “demand” to remove the posts or face a daily fine of $785,000, with Musk characterising the regulator as Australia’s “censorship Commissar”, attempting to crush free speech on his platform.

In fact, the richest man in the world even appears to be fundraising for the fight, rattling the can for premium subscriptions in the name of the cause.

If the legal fund is running low, it might be because he’s currently fighting several similar court battles in multiple jurisdictions; most notably in Brazil, and it turns out he was already suing the eSafety Commissioner over a completely separate takedown notice issued to X earlier this year.

Given all that, there wasn’t anything all that surprising about Musk’s choices.