Big Tech Given 24 Hours to Take Down Footage of Bondi Stabbing Spree

Published on April 17, 2024

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has given social media platforms 24 hours to remove graphic video and images of the massacre at the Bondi Westfield shopping centre that occurred on Saturday and Monday night’s Sydney church stabbing. The eSafety commissioner has the power to fine social media companies if they permit the publication of content that she finds objectionable. She said the action related to material that depicted “gratuitous or offensive violence with a high degree of impact or detail.” In the case of the stabbing at the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd Church, the service was being live-streamed, and footage of the attack has been circulating online....

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