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Dominic Giannini

Dutton backs Musk on global policing of internet

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has taken the side of X in the battle to remove a stabbing video. (Steven Saphore/AAP PHOTOS)

The opposition says it supports Elon Musk's argument that Australia can't police the internet globally, as the week ended the way it began with a war of words and legal wrangling over graphic videos circulating on X.

Musk's company, formerly known as Twitter, is locked in a legal battle with the eSafety commissioner to be able to keep graphic videos on its site showing the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney.

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