Australian court upholds order for Musk’s

SYDNEY, Australia – A court in Australia on Friday upheld an order for Elon Musk’s

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Musk took X, then called Twitter, private in 2022. The company had argued that it was not required to respond to the notice in early 2023 because it had been folded into a new Musk-controlled business entity, eliminating liability.

“If X Corp.’s argument had been accepted by the court, it could have set the precedent that the merger of a foreign company with another foreign company could allow it to avoid legal obligations in Australia,” eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said in a statement. following the verdict.

eSafety has also initiated civil proceedings against X for non-compliance.

X did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.

This is not the first conflict between Musk and the Australian internet safety regulator. The eSafety Commissioner earlier this year ordered X to remove posts showing a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a sermon.

X has challenged the order before the court on the basis of the fact that a supervisor in one country is not allowed to decide what internet users see around the world, and eventually maintained the messages after the Australian regulator had withdrawn his case.

Musk said at the time that the order was censorship and shared posts describing the order, which would have applied globally, as a plot by the World Economic Forum to impose eSafety rules on the world.

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