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Musk calls Australia's eSafety Commissioner a 'censorship commissar' over stabbing video order
Australian censorship commissar.
What he said or did
After Australia's eSafety Commissioner sought global removal of video of a Sydney church stabbing, and the Federal Court ordered the footage hidden pending a hearing, Musk described Commissioner Julie Inman Grant as the Australian censorship commissar.
Background
The 15 April 2024 attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was streamed online. X had geoblocked the video in Australia and said it would challenge a demand to withhold posts globally.
Official response
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called Musk an arrogant billionaire who thinks he's above the law
(AP) and told Sky News that Musk thinks he's above the law and above common decency.
What happened next
On 13 May 2024 Justice Geoffrey Kennett withdrew the global injunction. On 5 June eSafety dropped the Federal Court case, continuing at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal; Musk posted Freedom of speech is worth fighting for.
Sources
- Boston Globe (AP)23 Apr 2024
- News4Jax (AP)5 Jun 2024
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