ANALYSIS: Who Is Australia’s Internet Content Regulator?

Analysis The woman working to regulate what Australians—and, if she has her way, the entire world—can see on the internet, was once an employee of the company she’s battling in the Federal Court: Twitter, now called X. U.S. citizen Julie Inman Grant rarely grants long-form interviews, but in 2022 she agreed to talk to the Communications Law Review, which wrote an uncritical piece on the newly reappointed eSafety commissioner. In it, she revealed that she had studied computer science at university in the United States, but dropped out to study international relations. She then headed straight for Washington D.C., securing a job in the early 1990s at the intersection of “technology, public policy [and] social justice before there was an internet.”...