JAKARTA - Australian Court on Monday, May 13, rejected efforts by Australia's cyber safety regulator to extend an interim order for Elon Musk to block the stabbing video of aapproprisary church bishop, which authorities have called a terrorist attack.
Federal Court Judge Geoffrey Kennett said the request to extend the conjunction granted last month had been rejected. The reason will be released later, the judge said during a brief trial.
The matter has been registered for trial on Wednesday.
This legal feud has sparked a fierce exchange of opinion between Musk and senior Australian officials including Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who called Musk "an arrogant billionaire" because of his objection to withdrawing the video. Musk has posted a meme criticizing regulatory orders, describing it as a censorship.
Whereas other platforms, such as Meta, quickly attract content when asked.
The Federal Court, Australia's second highest court, last month upheld an order from Commissioner eSafety asking X to withdraw 65 posts containing footage of the bishop being stabbed while giving a sermon in Sydney on April 15, citing showing explicit violence. A 16-year-old teenager has been charged with terrorism charges for the alleged attack.
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Australian users have been blocked from viewing the post but X has refused to delete it globally on the grounds that one country's rules should not control the internet around the world.
Regulators told courts last week that Australia's geo-block, the solution X offers, was ineffective as a quarter of the population used a virtual private network (VPN) that disguised their location.
Last week, Albanese's central government announced it would hold a parliamentary investigation to examine the negative impacts of social media, saying social media had a major influence on what Australians saw online, with almost no adequate scrutiny.
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