The Federal Court has chosen not to extend a temporary order for social media company X, formerly Twitter, to hide videos of a Sydney terrorist stabbing globally.
Under the Online Safety Act, passed in 2021, the Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has the power to demand the removal of so-called "class 1 material", on pain of significant fines.In the days following the stabbing, X agreed to "geoblock" the posts, meaning most Australia users could no longer see them, and refused the eSafety Commissioner's removal notice, which would have had a global effect.
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