Elon Musk and the Australian security commissioner are presently in a authorized battle over content material printed on X.
The Australian Prime Minister has expressed his disgust at Elon Musk’s actions to defend the content material’s place on the platform and in keeping with The Guardian, calling him an,
“conceited billionaire who thinks he’s above the legislation.”
The Australian courtroom had ordered a 2 day injunction towards X to cover posts globally containing the footage of the alleged stabbing of Bishop, Mar Mari Emmanuel on the 15 April 2024 in Sydney church.
The esafety commissioner had directed X to take away the posts from X for the worldwide viewers nonetheless, X has solely blocked them in Australia pending a authorized problem. By solely eradicating them from Australian customers X nonetheless permits these exterior of Australia in addition to Australians utilizing a VPM to entry the content material.
The content material is deemed as class 1 beneath Australian classification legislation which is offensive violence with a excessive diploma of element.
The protection commissioner needs to dam violent movies from a large viewers and defend these on social media.
Why does Musk defend the content material?
Elon Musk has argued that his concept for X is to advertise free speech and to characterize the reality. He posted a tweet which stated,
“If any nation is allowed to censor content material for all nations which is what the Australian security commissioner is demanding then what’s to cease any nation from controlling your complete web”
Who posted the content material?
Ralph Babet, the United Australian Occasion Senator posted the video on X and Fb on Monday. Babet consider that folks ought to witness the content material and has spoken out towards these wishing to have it eliminated, stating that they’re “a menace to democracy”.
Esafety might be searching for a everlasting injunction and civil penalties towards X.
An extra listening to is about to happen within the close to future to find out whether or not X will take down the content material.