Australia must put X owner in his place [Video]

Elon Musk’s legal team revealed a curious problem for the billionaire when they told an Australian court on Monday night that they could not get legal instructions because it was 2am on Sunday at their client’s American headquarters.

The remark was revealing because Musk’s social media platform, X, has been operating in Australia for more than a decade, collecting whatever revenue it can make, but now lacks a local office to make the big calls on urgent requests to take down violent posts.

At its heart, this case is about Australian sovereignty over a company that has a deep aversion to government authority. Musk wants money from his Australian customers without having “social license” to operate as a good corporate citizen.

The political fight is easy to predict because Musk has few friends. Anthony Albanese and Peter …