Court Tells X to Hide Church Stabbing Videos From Users
Published on April 22, 2024
Billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X has been ordered to block all users from violent footage related to an alleged terror attack in a Sydney church. Mr. Musk and his company had raised free speech and jurisdictional concerns over orders from Australia’s internet cop to remove footage about the April 15 incident. The “graphic and violent” footage was instead geo-blocked to Australian audiences, the eSafety Commissioner complained to the Federal Court on Monday night. Calls have grown for harsher sanctions for social media platforms after distressing footage spread online of the church attack and a mass-casualty stabbing in a Bondi shopping centre days earlier....