Elon Musk victory in war on strict Australian web laws
“A gain for free speech in Australia.”
This is what Elon Musk’s lawyers say after overthrowing the government orders that prevents a task that claims that transsexual people belong to a mind institution.
Musk’s social media platform X and Canadian activist Christopher Elston, a previously known as Twitter, are in a legal war with Esafety commissioner.
In February 2024, Mr. Elston reproduced a Daily Mail article on the appointment of Teddy Cook and the World Health Organization for advice on health issues by the World Health Organization Teddy Cook and the World Health Organization.
He called Mr. Elston Mr. Cook and said, “belongs to psychiatry wards”.
When Mr. Cook came across the task, he filed a complaint with the Telenya Commissioner, who was moving to prevent the task.
Online regulator, Mr. Elston’s words were claimed to humiliate Mr. Cook and a wider transsexual community.
The activist’s X account was claimed to have more than 395,000 followers and the task was viewed 377,000 times and re -published 6,000 times in less than two weeks.
After challenging X and Mr. Elston, the administrative examination court was asked to determine whether a daily person would see his duty as cyber abuse.
Damien O’Donovan, a member of the court found that he did not intend to seriously damage the task late on Tuesday.
However, he found that the ordinary person would realize that transsexual people belong to a psychiatric ward.
“Although the post is expressed in an aggressive way, Mr. Elston’s expression is consistent with the views he expresses in other places under conditions where the expression of his opinion does not have a malicious intention,” O’donovan said. He said.
X welcomed the decision through his lawyers at Thompson Geer.
“This is another example of politically motivated decisions to make the Australians read and not hear what they shouldn’t moderate in the role of the Edual Commissioner.”
Mr. Elston said that the decision sent a clear message to the government that he did not have the authority to silence the peaceful expression.
At the hearing in court, Mr. Elston rejected his lawyers aimed at serious damage.
Canadian, Mr. Cook did not recognize, re -publishing public information and usually fulfills his duties, he said.
The spokesperson of the Teethis Commissioner said that the regulator will continue to take the responsibility of damage and protect the Australians seriously.
The decision is in the last part of a long -term legal war between the social media giant and online security regulators.
In May, the commissioner took the platform to the court asking the Australians to do more to secure online.
In February 2023, the regulator also fined $ 610,500 to the social media giant, and claimed that he did not answer enough questions about how to deal with harmful content on his platform, including sexual abuse materials.
X is discussing the fine.
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