eSafety Commission Says It’s Not Interested in Online Censorship

‘We do not have powers or, frankly, the resources to be proactively monitoring the Internet,’ eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said.

An image of the X (formerly Twitter) phone app in front of a laptop featuring the front page to Australia's eSafety commissioner website, taken in Perth, Western Australia on Jan. 22, 2024. Wade Zhong/The Epoch Times

Australia’s internet content regulator has denied being an “Orwellian” agency amid a debate over social media censorship.

During a recent Budget Estimates hearing, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said her organisation did not operate as a “censor.”