I'm loving the Twitter rage against Katie Hopkins at the moment.
She's basically an extreme Right commentator from the UK who has been banned from Twitter because of 'hate speech' - I don't know the reasons why, I try to pay as little attention to her as possible as I find her an extremely obnoxious individual - and it wouldn't surprise me if she really is racist.
The current rage is about the fact that she's (rumoured) been allowed entry into Australia to take part in this year's Celebrity Big Brother - while thousands of 'ordinary' Australian citizens can't return home ATM because of Covid restrictions.
And to top it all, Katie Hopkins has been blatantly slack in following Covid guidelines - her stated reason being that the whole pandemic is overblown, although more likely is the fact that she is an extremely selfish individual who would never be prepared to inconvenience herself for the sake of anyone else in society.
What the Twitter ragers are forgetting...
Twitter has no jurisdiction in any country, only on its own platform - Twitter can arbitrarily ban anyone for no reason, BUT this doesn't prevent nation states from having more tolerant policies on free speech - if the Australian media wants to give this individual a platform, that's its right.
They're also forgetting that there's one rule for the elite and one rule for the plebs like them, that's just the way it is.
AND the rage is all moot anyway - if Katie Hopkins is having to sell herself to Australian Celebrity Big Brother, her influence is clearly over anyway.
And when the hell did Twitter become the universal standard for free speech anyway?!? That's a dangerous starting point.