Saturday Social Media Platform X (formerly Twitter) said He said he intends to challenge the order. Australian eSafety Commissioner request to the company Deleting certain posts on the platform regarding the recent attack on a Christian bishop in Sydney.
According to X's statement, the company: We have been ordered by Australia's eSafety Commissioner to remove related posts from platforms around the world. Failure to do so will result in a fine of AU$785,000 (approximately US$500,000) per day. However, X maintained that the post in question did not violate his X's internal rules and rules regarding violent speech. policy. Although the platform has complied with the order and a legal challenge is pending, X believes the order goes beyond the scope of Australian law.
“While X respects the right of countries to enforce their laws within their jurisdictions, the eSafety Commissioner does not have the authority to determine what content X users can view around the world. We will firmly challenge this illegal and dangerous approach in court.”
On April 15, a 16-year-old boy was arrested after violently attacking Assyrian Bishop Marmari Emanuel during a church service in Sydney. Bishop Marmari suffered several stab wounds, and many parishioners were also attacked. The attack occurred just two days after a man was shot dead by police in Sydney on April 13 after killing six people at a shopping mall.
After two incidents, the eSafety Commissioner Concerned It questioned the footage circulating online and urged social media platforms, including X and Meta, the conglomerate that owns platforms such as WhatsApp and Instagram, to: unload Violent or distressing images or videos of events. While the majority complied with the order, Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant said she was still satisfied with what had been done to “protect Australians from this most extreme, gratuitous and violent content circulating online”. He said that he had not done so and as a result, he felt he had no choice but to use the order. Under the Online Safety Act 2021, it is empowered to formally compel platforms to remove all such posts.
on monday, The eSafety Commissioner took the matter to court and succeeded in obtaining a two-day restraining order against X. The agency claimed that X only “geoblocked” the content rather than removing it. This means that while the content cannot be viewed, it can be accessed by anyone in Australia using a virtual private network (VPN) with a virtual IP address outside Australia, which is insufficient under the Online Safety Act. It is thought that.
At a press conference at monday queenslandAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese expressed support for the eSafety Commissioner, saying:
“I think it is extraordinary that It's about the dangerous repercussions that can occur when something happens that we know is not true and is replicated and weaponized to cause division, in this case promoting negative speech and making it extremely difficult. “Social media has a social responsibility.”
X's lawyer, Marcus Hoyne, is trying to delay the court's decision. He claimed he was unable to contact his client to respond to the hearing, which took place at nearly 2 a.m. in San Francisco, where X is headquartered. Judge Jeffrey Kennett then granted an interim order requiring worldwide notification of its contents. The order will run until 5pm on April 24 in Sydney. X will then be given the opportunity to cancel the authorities' request for an injunction on Wednesday before the court makes a final decision.
