“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. But I’m not one who believes in that sort of censorship,” McCormack said, speaking to ABC Radio National on Monday.
At a press briefing later, McCormack doubled down on his criticism of Twitter.
“I say to the owners of Twitter that if you are going to take down the comments of [the person] who is still the American president, you need to think also about the photo, the doctored photo, the doctored image,” McCormack told reporters,
referring to the faked photo posted by a Chinese government official of an Australian soldier holding a knife to an Afghani kid’s throat.