A massive arsehole called Chris Elston hates transgender people and uses X as their soapbox to spew hate. To their credit, the eSafety Commissioner noticed a targeted campaign against Australian trans rights activist Teddy Cook and told X to remove those posts. X did the bare minimum, not removing the posts but hiding them from Australian users, which made things worse as it put even more attention on the abuse because it was hidden, not deleted - a classic Streisand Effect. Now Elon Musk/X is going to sue the eSafety Commissioner to "protect its users' right to free speech". Cool, so it's free speech when you want to harass trans people, but not free speech to expose neo-Nazi behaviour, or researchers investigating right-wing influencers. Understood.
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