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Social media companies can’t be immune from the need for a social licence

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

In the free-for-all between the Australian government and Big Tech boss Elon Musk this week, the government had to be on a winner.

Most people would have little sympathy with Musk’s vociferous opposition to being told to take down from X (previously Twitter) the video of the stabbing of bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at a Sydney Assyrian church.

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