eSafety loses injunction against X, full trial to come in a few weeks

Elon had a small victory against the eSafety Commissioner in Federal Court yesterday, with the judge refusing to extend eSafety's injunction forcing X to delete posts instead of hiding them from Australians. There is still going to be a proper hearing about eSafety's decision mark the X posts as "class 1 material" under the eSafety Act that'll test if their interpretation of "well an Australian can see the posts if they use a VPN, hence, you need to delete, not geoblock the posts" is something they're able to force a business to do. Not sure when that will take place (2-3 months or so perhaps), but the full judgement on the injunction is available online. Josh Taylor noted that one of the reasons the judge removed the injunction is because "the notice would be ignored or disparaged in other countries" and has "potential consequences for orderly and amicable relations between nations".


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