‘Where Is Humanity?’: Stabbed Christian Bishop Speaks Out Against Online Censorship

An Orthodox Christian bishop attacked during a live-streamed sermon has delivered a message to the Australian government after returning from hospital. Assyrian Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, who suffered eye injuries following the attack, argued that censorship went against the principle of integrity, morality, and democracy—the values which the “Western world, more-so, have been fighting for,” he argued. His comments come as eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant engages in a legal battle with social media platform X after her office handed down an order demanding the platform block 65 posts containing videos of the attack. In response, Australian political leaders have continued chastising X and pushed for harsher sanctions to combat “misinformation” online....