Thread by @michaeljknowles

.@ElonMusk is in a battle against the Australian government to stop the World Economic Forum from silencing citizens and independent journalists worldwide. Here’s everything you need to know: 🧵

2/ In January 2023, I exposed the threat of the Australian eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant (an American who worked at Twitter pre-Elon), and the World Economic Forum’s “Safety by Design” project.

3/ Two months later, Grant demanded that @ReduxxMag, an international publication, delete a story about an American man who lives in Australia, plays women’s soccer, and allegedly injured real women. X had to censor the story for Australian users.

4/ That man is Justin “Riley” Dennis, a YouTuber known for calling straight men and lesbians “discriminatory” because they don’t find him attractive.

5/ Then the World Health Organization appointed Australian transvestite “Teddy Cook” to a UN panel charged with drafting “care” guidelines for the sexually confused. Daily Mail reported that Miss Cook had posted all sorts of depraved content to social media, including bestiality.

6/ @BillboardChris brought the story to X, observing that “people who belong in psychiatric wards are writing the guidelines for people who belong in psychiatric wards.” I’ve blurred Miss Cook’s chest in these images for obvious reasons.

7/ The eSafety commissioner then demanded that Chris delete his post and threatened to fine X ~$500k if it didn’t censor the post. X complied for Australian audiences but declared its intent to file a legal challenge to the censorship.

8/ For a full breakdown of @BillboardChris’s run-in with the eSafety Commissioner, see here:

9/ In her most ambitious move yet, the eSafety commissioner has censored even news footage.

10/ On April 13, a man went on a stabbing spree, killing six people and injuring twelve others at a Sydney shopping mall. Independent journalists such as @StillGray reported on the events with video and images. eSafety declared this illegal:

11/ On April 15, a disturbed Arabic-speaking teenager now charged with terrorism offenses stabbed an Ancient Church of the East bishop, Mar Mari Emmanuel, during a church service, which was live-streamed.

12/ Now, the eSafety commissioner, backed by the Australian prime minister and the Australian Federal Court, is demanding that X censor these videos *globally* or else face a daily fine of $500.

13/ @ElonMusk refused, asking, “What is to stop any country from controlling the entire Internet?”

14/ In response, Australian senator Jacqui Lambie proposed jailing @ElonMusk. “The power that that man has,” she fumed, “because of that platform that he’s on, it’s got to stop. It has absolutely got to stop.”

15/ Worse still, the prime minister of Australia, far-left Anthony Albanese, backed his WEF-affiliated eSafety Commissioner, promising that Australia is “prepared to take whatever action is necessary to haul these companies into line.”

16/ If you thought that perhaps these liberal globalists were at least doing all this for the sake of the victims, consider that Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel—the victim of the church stabbing who miraculously survived—is siding with Elon and wants the footage to stay online.

17/ So when the Australian prime minister says he wants to “haul these companies into line,” what does he mean? He means X. He means the place independent journalists publish. He means the place you can speak freely.

18/ Is eSafety fining Daily Mail $1M every 2 days for their “Teddy” Cook article? Or YouTube for hosting NBC's church stabbing video? It appears not. It seems the WEF’s plot to impose “eSafety” rules on the world is focused on X, the one major platform that lets us speak freely.

19/ So the fate of global speech stands to be decided in a kangaroo-court battle between a WEF-backed American lady who moved to Australia to censor the Internet and a South African man who moved to America who’s telling her she can’t.

20/ My full thoughts on @elonmusk's battle against globalist censorship and an interview with @BillboardChris: