Misinformation Crackdown ‘The Revenge of the Establishment’: British Pundit

A British commentator has weighed in on the Australian authorities’ push to crackdown on misinformation, calling it the “revenge of the establishment against the disobedient classes.” The campaign against misinformation came in the wake of a terror-inspired Sydney church stabbing attack and the Bondi stabbing spree in early April. Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, asked X Corp to globally block 65 tweets related to these incidents. However, the social media giant refused, igniting a legal battle at the federal court. Brendan O’Neill, a British pundit and author, noted that there’s “nothing scarier” than the idea that the eSafety Commissioner, an unelected official, is exerting control over what people can and cannot say....