Australia’s ‘eSafety Czar’ Pursuing Global Internet Censorship: Shellenberger

American author and journalist Michael Shellenberger has weighed in on the dispute between X and Australia’s eSafety commissioner, warning the latter was attempting to “pursue global internet censorship.” Mr. Shellenberger described American-born Julie Inman Grant as the “eSafety czar in Australia” and a “key architect” behind the multi-governmental Global Online Safety Regulators Network to “censor the speech that politicians and government bureaucrats fear.” The global online safety network consists of seven members including representatives from Australia, France, the UK, Ireland, Korea, South Africa and Fiji. Ms. Grant previously said at a Senate Estimates hearing that the network aimed to “work together to achieve better safety outcomes for all of our citizens.”...