{"id":296799,"date":"2025-10-06T10:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=296799"},"modified":"2025-10-06T10:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:07:09","slug":"australias-esafety-commissioner-orders-x-to-geoblock-ukrainian-murder-footage-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=296799","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s eSafety Commissioner Orders X to Geoblock Ukrainian Murder Footage Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australia&#8217;s eSafety Commissioner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=julie-inman-grant-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Julie Inman Grant\">Julie Inman Grant<\/a> issued a notice to X on September 26, demanding the removal or geoblocking of 23 posts containing CCTV footage of 28-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=280421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Ukrainian Refugee Stabbed to Death in Charlotte Train Horror\">Ukrainian Iryna Zarutska&#8217;s fatal stabbing<\/a> in Columbus, Ohio, on September 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The order, enforced under the Online Safety Act 2021, targets content shared by international users like former Belgian MP Dries Van Langenhove and commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek, with daily fines of A$825,000 for non-compliance, affecting only Australian access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics label the action extraterritorial censorship, while the commissioner cites protection from harmful violent depictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics label the action extraterritorial censorship, while the commissioner cites protection from harmful violent depictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":296802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35,992],"tags":[18078],"class_list":["post-296799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","category-social-media","tag-julie-inman-grant-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296803,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296799\/revisions\/296803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/296802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}