Albanese describes as ‘exceptional’ X’s dispute over the removal of Sydney church stabbing posters

A regulator’s request to delete some tweets on a Sydney bishop stabbing was challenged in court by social media site X, which the prime minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, called “extraordinary” on Monday, April 22.

Albanese expressed disapproval of the dissemination of graphic photos and said that some posts on social media have made a lot of people’s suffering worse. Declaring during a press conference that “I find it extraordinary that X chose not to comply and are trying to argue their case,” Albanese said that X’s answer to the order, which was issued by the government panel known as the e-Safety Commissioner, was different from other social media providers’.

In connection with the assault on Assyrian church bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel last Monday, police have accused a 16-year-old of a terrorist offense. Videos on the internet showed the assailant yelling at the bishop for defaming Islam while being held back by the audience. In a social media post, the church requested prayers and said that the bishop and priest were in stable conditions. The 53-year-old bishop was born in Iraq, and the church stated in a statement on Tuesday that his health was “improving.

Posts, according to X, did not break any regulations.
However, X retorted that the messages did not breach its violent speech guidelines, stressing that the regulator had the power to control what its users could see worldwide. It promised to oppose this strategy in court, calling it “unlawful and dangerous.”. Entrepreneur Elon Musk, who rebranded Twitter as X last year after purchasing the social media platform for $44 billion in 2022, said in a tweet, “The Australian censorship commissar is demanding global content bans!”