Australia has been embroiled in a significant controversy involving Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Elon Musk, the owner of social media platform X, over the handling of violent content. The dispute centers on X's refusal to comply with an Australian court order to remove footage of the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at Wakeley church in Sydney on April 15, which was livestreamed and described as a terrorist attack. The Australian eSafety Commissioner issued a takedown order for the content, which X initially challenged. However, the Federal Court granted an interim injunction, mandating X to block all content related to the incident globally. This legal battle has sparked a broader debate on global censorship and free speech, drawing criticism from various quarters and leading to a standoff between the Australian government and Musk.
🚨Actual footage of Australian PM @AlboMP reacting to @elonmusk stopping him from censoring the world. https://t.co/cFsaOaMl8Z
Elon Musk’s X was asked to remove 65 tweets with video of Sydney church stabbing, court documents show https://t.co/GuwcwHhRqv
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The Home Affairs Minister has called for more regulation of social media companies, hitting out at X owner Elon Musk as the fight to remove violent footage of an alleged terrorist act from the platform continues. https://t.co/KGVFjWHGGr
Australia news LIVE: Elon Musk labels Jacqui Lambie ‘enemy of the people’ amid social media furore; Australians hit by tax surge https://t.co/uyV4uXn0aZ
Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says X owner Elon Musk’s row with the Australian government is “not about freedom of speech”. https://t.co/ZPk5EbB5ZM
#Australian senator Jacqui Lambie has called for #ElonMusk’s imprisonment for refusing to take down content on the Wakeley church stabbing https://t.co/7x4EfMC2qY
“Are you requiring this platform to censor content globally?” X owner and tech billionaire #ElonMusk has probed #Australian prime minister on whether his government is attempting to “censor” content worldwide. https://t.co/YSbVXNwBsd
Elon Musk is waging war on multiple fronts — and now Australia is in the firing line https://t.co/EFSRciBbEb
Australian Judge Bans Twitter From Circulating Video Of Bishop’s Stabbing: REPORT https://t.co/3RyIA3OOls
Australian politicians want to shut down X and imprison Elon Musk because free speech is a danger to their fragile democracy that’s run by fragile, pathetic people. You couldn’t make this up. https://t.co/mEBLqMtO6f
🚨🇦🇺AUSTRALIAN PM MISREPRESENTS THE LAW IN LATEST ATTACK ON ELON Anthony Albanese characterized X's challenge of Australia's attempt to enforce a global ban on content as Elon thinking he is "above the law." "What has occurred here is that the eSafety Commissioner has made very… https://t.co/pZ3CUEFOvS https://t.co/M1dGUbU0ad
Censorship: Australian Senator calls for @elonmusk’s incarceration for his refusal to censor speech on X. https://t.co/JWflaCsqg0
Anthony Albanese’s war with Elon Musk has gotten more “vicious” and “cynical” after the Prime Minister hit out at the billionaire’s “ego”, according to Sky News host Andrew Bolt. https://t.co/InPmZVeKAk
Elon Musk, Australia's eSafety Commissioner: X owner takes another swipe at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over online censorship https://t.co/0uupyn0hjI https://t.co/R5fPYoux62
Elon Musk's battle over the Sydney church stabbing video is not about freedom of speech. It’s to titillate his followers | Belinda Barnet https://t.co/sSmDeF0Iy0
Elon Musk criticized an order by Australian authorities to remove a video of the stabbing of a bishop and argued it sets a dangerous precedent https://t.co/piEG3lcUQy
Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie is not a fan of free speech. She believes that @elonmusk should be in jail. She deleted her @X account in the last few hours. https://t.co/12DwOdRlUZ
Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says there “is going to be a battle” between Anthony Albanese and Elon Musk as the Australian government prepares for “long and protracted legal action” against the social media platform. https://t.co/GCxkoRXS6P
Musk v Albanese: How Sydney stabbing sparked a censorship debate https://t.co/piggw48Jju
Jacqui Lambie has called upon fellow parliamentarians to boycott Elon Musk's social media platform X, as she launched a broadside against the billionaire over his mocking of demands to remove video footage of last week's alleged terror attack. https://t.co/pxHpgwWatI
Musk vs Albanese: How Sydney stabbing sparked a censorship debate. https://t.co/g11yqnegFg
#ElonMusk lashed out against the Australian government after his platform was ordered by a court to take down videos and media that showed the stabbing of Orthodox Christian leader Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in Sydney on April 15. https://t.co/rU2UiBmRbr
Musk decries Australian court ‘censorship’ of X terror posts https://t.co/dU6lZD8Xz1
Elon Musk’s X v Australia’s online safety regulator: untangling the tweet takedown order https://t.co/0SX7UXzBZ8
'What is to stop any country from controlling the entire #Internet': #ElonMusk on #Australia #injunction on church stabbing #videos https://t.co/kTB7s8iRhM
#Australia, #ElonMusk in war of words over censorship: ‘Arrogant billionaire’ https://t.co/tNVQUuxRV3 https://t.co/4MYJgNwdk4
Elon Musk’s X v Australia’s online safety regulator: untangling the tweet takedown orders https://t.co/OGAdmkN3o1
Australia secures takedown order for terror videos, which Elon Musk wants to fight https://t.co/VygXLFpWxf
Matt Canavan has fired up at the PM's attempts to "police" free speech on social media amid his ongoing feud with X owner Elon Musk over the platform's handling of footage from the Sydney church stabbing. https://t.co/7VGjRjv9hZ
Australian politicians want @elonmusk locked up for supporting free speech https://t.co/U8GZUoxuRl
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is leading a charge against social media platform X, as the eSafety Commissioner fights to have "graphic and violent" footage removed from it. https://t.co/FL26uX2TIa
"Not About Freedom Of Expression": Aussie Politicians Unite Against Elon Musk's X https://t.co/TZZ10Stt9y
A feud is brewing between Anthony Albanese and Elon Musk. Our eSafety Commissioner has ordered ‘X’ to remove footage of a stabbing attack at a Sydney church. But Elon Musk is refusing to play ball. Listen to the fiery clash HERE. 🎧https://t.co/iehLkfM49G🎧 https://t.co/XZ9u7DUGeK
Elon thanks the Australian PM for highlighting X is the only platform standing up for truth and free speech All the others complied I’d like to take a moment to thank the PM for informing the public that this platform is the only truthful one Editors note The Australian… https://t.co/pcjTlTWo9o
PM Albanese on Sky News this morning accuses @ElonMusk of "trying to lecture Australians about free speech", after the X boss posted overnight about the eSafety case on the Sydney church stabbing vision https://t.co/nmmBwrH7WA https://t.co/OKs9fXUxC0
PM @albo on @elonmusk: ‘ ‘We’ll do whatever’s necessary to take on this arrogant billionaire who thinks he’s above the law.’ @abcnews
Musk’s Dispute With Australian Prime Minister Over Sydney Stabbing Posts Explained https://t.co/SC1t4DodGY https://t.co/JYQam01fBP
Australian judge orders global ban on sharing video of Sydney church stabbing https://t.co/24cvm2iUyj https://t.co/jO6mtV7ftf
NEW- Standoff Between Elon Musk and Australian Regulators Continues | Via @OvertonLive The recent stabbings in Bondi Junction and at the church Wakeley, Western Sydney, have spawned a new battle in the war for free speech, as graphic videos related to these attacks have spread… https://t.co/ATAXdC4E00
'Australian censorship commissar' orders X to globally remove video of Islamic terror attack on Christian bishop https://t.co/CSakWjm5IR https://t.co/tRRdsYnC0q
NEWS: X has been dragged into a growing controversy involving the Australian government and politicians over its refusal to comply with a global order to take down footage of the recent Sydney stabbing. Australia's PM Albanese today criticized X's actions as "extraordinary". https://t.co/lexJrFZpDY
Australia's Prime Minister taking time during his presser to advertise for Elon. "By and large, [other social media] responded appropriately to the calls [for censorship] by the E-Safety Commissioner. X chose not to. ... We know, I think overwhelmingly, Australians want… https://t.co/RO0SVAcR8d
An Australian judge on Monday ruled that social media platform X must block every user in the world from accessing video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church, extending the prohibition beyond users in Australia. https://t.co/QsuDL1gjOK
Australia's online safety regulator has won a court bid to force the social media platform X to remove videos of the alleged terrorist attack at a church in Sydney. #9News https://t.co/W4WSh6sAaD
Australian judge bans X from sharing video of bishop being stabbed in Sydney church https://t.co/gB8POWQCOX
Elon Musk-owned platform X has been ordered by the Federal Court to block all content from the Wakeley church stabbing, in an interim injunction granted to the eSafety Commissioner. https://t.co/bBr9zg9vXD
🇦🇺X REFUSES AUSTRALIAN PUSH FOR GLOBAL CENSORSHIP Following the knife attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in Sydney, the Australian eSafety Commissioner issued an order to social media platforms to take down content related to the attack. While X complied with the request in… https://t.co/NlHidZVONC https://t.co/HLM0bikhYA
Social media platform X said on April 20 it would challenge in court an order from an Australian regulator demanding the company remove some posts related to the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney https://t.co/xZed6bTyNP https://t.co/YPHuBH0LYl
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has taken aim at X owner Elon Musk's "extraordinary" fight against a takedown order for violent content, as the Greens demand the "thug" businessman front the Australian Parliament. https://t.co/tJUCDL3X9y
Australian PM Anthony Albanese has criticised X for its 'extraordinary' decision to challenge a takedown order for footage of a stabbing during a livestreamed church service https://t.co/DsuVtGKLsK https://t.co/XXdrnUBBWT
Australia faces global free speech criticism over censorship demands as social media giants clash with eSafety Commissioner. MORE: https://t.co/zEevXa2awL https://t.co/IiT1peoKcW