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Tanya Plibersek has branded Elon Musk an 'egotistical billionaire' after the X owner vowed to defy Australian government demands to remove harmful content from his social media platform.
Musk mocked the Australian eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, after she ordered the removal of videos showing the alleged livestreamed stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel.
Ms Grant warned that failure to ban these posts would see X, formerly Twitter, face a 'daily fine of $785,000' but the Tesla CEO slammed the move.
'The Australian censorship commissar is demanding *global* content bans,' Musk wrote on X on Saturday.
Now, Ms Plibersek has hit back, claiming Musk's position 'beggars belief'.
Elon Musk (pictured) mocked the Australian eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, after she issued a notice of removal of videos showing the alleged livestreamed stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel. Tanya Plibersek has now labelled him an 'egotistical billionaire'
'This egotistical billionaire thinks it's more important for him to show whatever he wants on X or Twitter or whatever you want to call it today (...) than to respect the victims of the crimes that are being shown on social media, and to protect our Australian community from the harmful impact of showing this terrible stuff,' Ms Plibersek told Sunrise.
The Environment Minister said the Albanese Labor government had 'quadrupled the budget for the eSafety Commissioner'.
The internet safety regulator lauds itself as the 'first government agency committed to keeping its citizens safer online'.
'eSafety has powers relating to cyberbullying, image-based abuse, and illegal and harmful online content,' its website states.
Ms Plibersek said there was now bipartisan support for legislation aimed at tackling misinformation online.
'We tried to introduce a misinformation and disinformation bill last year,' she added.
'Sadly the Liberals
