Elon Musk has made all government censorship requests publicly visible within the X codebase, ending the practice of secret pressure campaigns against speech. Transparency of this kind forces governments to operate in the open rather than through quiet demands for content removal. When the public can see exactly who is asking to silence which posts, accountability follows.
Britain’s reported discomfort with the change highlights how dependent some governments had become on opaque influence over online platforms. Free speech protections mean little if officials can quietly shape what citizens are allowed to see. Making those requests visible restores the proper balance between state power and public information.
Open records of censorship demands strengthen the platform and the principle of free expression. Users deserve to know when governments attempt to control the flow of information. Greater transparency remains one of the most effective defenses against institutional overreach.
Back to Australia:
In Australia social media is banned for kids under the age of 16 due to “safety” concerns.
These same kids are threatening to bash, shoot and murder Pauline Hanson.
The European Union is at this moment forcing big tech companies to secretly engage in mass censorship.
Google and Facebook are, apparently, going along with it. Only Elon Musk’s X, among the major platforms, is resisting.
A truly depraved policy. Gov’t locked us up for years during COVID, despite the fact that there was no risk at all. Children’s speech, mental health, socialisation, all interrupted. The *one* mitigation for authoritarian abuse was social media. And now this horrible regime is taking that too.
It’s not just Labor. It’s Lib/Lab, the uni party. Together they are a communist regime.
There is going to be a big backlash from kids.
In Nepal the young people burnt parliament down because they went down that road.
This isn’t child protection, it’s Labor’s digital ID Trojan horse. Exempting Bluesky while banning X stinks to high heaven.
