[Opinion] Grattan on Friday: Social media companies can’t be immune from the need for a social licence

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Grattan on Friday: Social media companies can’t be immune from the need for a social licence

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. Admittedly the matter isn’t clear cut, and the bishop himself has now said he wasn’t opposed to the video …