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Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant has issued a 20-page removal notice to X on September 26, demanding the platform censor 23 specific posts featuring raw CCTV clips showing the last moments of Iryna Zarutska's life for Australian users.
If X doesn't comply, it faces fines of AU$825,000 per day. Among the targeted posts are commentaries about the slaying of Zarutska on her way to work by a convicted criminal on a train carriage, with many of the posts by journalists and online commentators criticising the double standards of the West when white women are murdered by criminals.
Inman-Grant, who has an international reputation for trying to censor the internet and control access to information, is no stranger to fighting with X. The former Twitter employee and WEF regular has been flexing the bureaucratic muscle of her agency, under the guise of representing the wishes of the Australian people and government. She has already lost multiple court battles over her vendetta against free speech, costing Australian taxpayers untold amounts. It is not yet clear whether X will challenge this latest provocation by Australia's aptly named E-Karen.
We have to ask ourselves why the eSafety Commission is making these decisions, and if it is driven by the political motivations of the people working at the eSafety office. Why is it that Australians can see some videos which may depict violence from theatres of war, for instance, but then have content hidden that pulls into focus the tragic failures and double standards in allowing the slaying of innocent victims, which are a topic of heated discussion and debate?