Video Takedown Fight With Musk’s X Lands in Court

The eSafety commissioner had ordered the removal of the footage but X’s response was to block the video to Australian IP addresses, the court was told.

The X logo on a smartphone screen in Los Angeles, Calif., on July 31, 2023. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images

An Australian court has ordered billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform to block every user from seeing violent footage related to a Sydney church stabbing, not just block it for Australian audiences.

Amid political unity against X Corp’s defiant stance to keep potentially harmful content online, the nation’s internet cop launched the matter in the Federal Court on Monday evening, April 22.