Australia’s ‘eSafety Czar’ Pursuing Global Internet Censorship: Shellenberger

‘Nothing can justify the Australian government censoring the entire global Internet of content it does not like.’
Australia’s ‘eSafety Czar’ Pursuing Global Internet Censorship: Shellenberger
A woman holds a smartphone displaying the logo of US social network X (former Twitter), in Nantes, western France, on Nov. 29, 2023. Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images
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American author and journalist Michael Shellenberger has weighed in on the dispute between X and Australia’s eSafety commissioner, warning the latter was attempting to “pursue global internet censorship.”

Mr. Shellenberger described American-born Julie Inman Grant as the “eSafety czar in Australia” and a “key architect” behind the multi-governmental Global Online Safety Regulators Network to “censor the speech that politicians and government bureaucrats fear.”

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