Australia’s Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack has criticised social media giant Twitter for banning U.S. President Donald Trump from its platform. McCormack told ABC radio on Monday that it was not up to Big Tech to decide whose voices were heard. “I don’t believe in that sort of censorship,” the National Party leader said. “There’s been a lot of people who have said and done a lot of things on Twitter previously that haven’t received that sort of condemnation or indeed censorship,” he added. In fact, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s controversial Twitter post, which sparked national and international outrage, is still pinned to the top of his feed. The post featured a doctored image of an Australian soldier smiling and slitting the throat of a young child, the post was published at a sensitive time as the Australian Defence Force was investigating war crime allegations. Twitter on Friday …
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