Australian Court Sides with X in Free Speech Battle

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An Australian court ruled in favor of X, overturning an eSafety commissionerโ€™s order to block video footage of an attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in April.

An Australian court has ruled in favor of social media platform X, allowing it to keep video footage of an attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel accessible within the country.

The decision overturns an earlier order by the eSafety commissioner that had required X to block Australians from viewing the footage, according to a copy of the ruling and a statement posted by Xโ€™s Global Government Affairs account.

Following the attack on April 15 during a livestreamed sermon at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, Sydney, several X users posted videos of the incident.

Emmanuel himself believed the public should be allowed to see the footage, making his opinion known at a sermon two weeks after the attack at his church. Despite this, the eSafety commissioner ordered X to restrict access to the video in Australia, even though it remained available on other platforms.

X complied with the order domestically while initiating a legal challenge, the X statement said. Unsatisfied with the platformโ€™s response, the eSafety commissioner demanded that social media companies censor the footage worldwide.

While other platforms catered to the commissionerโ€™s demands, X contested the global censorship demand in the Australian Federal Court, the company said in the statement. The court ruled in favor of X, rejecting the commissionerโ€™s request for worldwide censorship.

In the statement released on Oct. 11, X said, โ€œX welcomes the decision of the Australian eSafety commissioner to concede that it should not have ordered X to block the video footage of the tragic attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel.โ€

The company added, โ€œIt is regrettable the Commissioner used significant taxpayer resources for this legal battle when communities need more than ever to be allowed to see, decide and discuss what is true and important to them.โ€

Emmanuel spoke out against online censorship after he returned from the hospital, where he was treated for eye injuries sustained in the attack.

Byย Chase Smith

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