{"id":52132,"date":"2024-05-13T16:54:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T06:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=52132"},"modified":"2024-05-13T16:54:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T06:54:58","slug":"x-wins-court-reprieve-in-battle-over-extreme-australian-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=52132","title":{"rendered":"X wins court reprieve in battle over extreme Australian content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A bid by Australia&#8217;s online watchdog to impose a global ban on dozens of violent X posts stumbled on Monday, when a top judge ruled in favour of the social media firm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Federal Court Justice Geoffrey Kennett refused to extend a temporary order to take down posts showing the stabbing of a Sydney priest in April, pending further legal action.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The orders of the court will be that the application to extend the interlocutory injunction&#8230; is refused,&#8221; Kennett said, without giving the reasons for his decision.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s eSafety Commissioner wants the Elon Musk-owned company to take down 65 video and audio clips in Australia and worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The site, formerly known as Twitter, has agreed to geoblock the posts, theoretically preventing them from being seen by users in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>But the eSafety Commission has said that does not go far enough.<\/p>\n<p>It has called for X to remove the posts globally, saying they are still easily viewed in Australia through the use of virtual private networks that mask a user&#8217;s location.<\/p>\n<p>X had refused to comply with requests to take them down worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s ruling is not a total victory for X, as it had already been ignoring the worldwide take-down order and further legal action is expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bid by Australia&#8217;s online watchdog to impose a global ban on dozens of violent X posts stumbled on Monday, when a top judge ruled in favour of the social media firm. Federal Court Justice Geoffrey Kennett refused to extend a temporary order to take down posts showing the stabbing of a Sydney priest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1460],"class_list":["post-52132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-x-wins-court-reprieve-in-battle-over-extreme-australian-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}