{"id":60326,"date":"2024-06-05T16:33:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T06:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=60326"},"modified":"2024-06-05T16:33:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T06:33:55","slug":"esafety-commissioner-abandons-court-fight-with-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=60326","title":{"rendered":"eSafety Commissioner abandons court fight with X"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The eSafety Commission has abandoned its Federal Court case to remove videos<\/a> of the Wakeley terrorist stabbing on Elon Musk\u2019s social media platform X and will now test the validity of its powers through the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

X, formerly known as Twitter, claimed a major victory last month<\/a> after Federal Court Justice Geoffrey Kennett lifted a temporary order to hide videos of the stabbing across its global audience, which the social media giant never complied with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the April stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel<\/a> in a western Sydney church, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant invoked the Online Safety Act, passed by the Coalition in 2021, to demand the removal of \u201cclass 1 material\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legal fight sparked a brawl over freedom of speech and online harm<\/a>, fuelled by Mr Musk\u2019s claims of censorship and debate over unfettered powers of social media giants to allow publication of violent and extremist content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his decision to deny the eSafety Commissioner\u2019s application to extend an interlocutory injunction on footage posted by X, Justice Kennett said a global ban was not a \u201creasonable\u201d step under Australian law because it would be \u201cignored or disparaged in other countries\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms Inman Grant on Wednesday said \u201cI have decided to discontinue the proceedings in the Federal Court against X Corp in relation to the matter of extreme violent material depicting the real-life graphic stabbing of a religious leader at Wakeley in Sydney on 15 April 2024\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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