https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/elon-musk-wins-fight-with-australian-safety-regulator-over-stabbing-video-on-x/
Australia drops censorship fight threatening Musk’s X with $500K daily fine.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Australia's safety regulator has ended a legal battle with X (formerly Twitter) after threatening approximately $500,000 daily fines for failing to remove 65 instances of a religiously motivated stabbing video from X globally.
The legal director of a nonprofit digital rights group called the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Corynne McSherry, backed up Musk, urging the court to agree that "no single country should be able to restrict speech across the entire Internet."
"Our sole goal and focus in issuing our removal notice was to prevent this extremely violent footage from going viral, potentially inciting further violence and inflicting more harm on the Australian community," Inman-Grant said, still defending the order despite dropping it.
In court, X's lawyer Marcus Hoyne had pushed back on such logic, arguing that the eSafety regulator's mission was "pointless" because "footage of the attack had now spread far beyond the few dozen URLs originally identified," the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
According to AP News, Australian Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland shared a similar statement in parliament today, backing up the safety regulator while scolding X users who allegedly took up Musk's fight by threatening Inman-Grant and her family.
The safety regulator has said that Musk's X posts incited a "pile-on" from his followers who allegedly sent death threats and exposed her children's personal information, the BBC reported.
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This is just common sense. As much as I'm not a fan of Musk, the ban is just going to increase the number of people who search for the video. You'll never censor the whole internet, so it'll always be available for those who look.
That doesn't mean it should be plastered across the worst social media site on the Internet.
"Well, you can't prevent all assaults in the world, so why shouldn't I punch you in the face now?" is a rather defeatist point of view.