Free Speech, Baby!
Cathy Wilcox
Cathy Wilcox highlights the contradictory positions held within the Coalition. In October, the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister demanded social media platforms take responsibility for what they publish. But when Facebook took down some of his posts, citing breaches of its policy against COVID-19 misinformation, Nationals backbencher George Christensen complained that his free speech was being impeded.
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