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More on the eSafety commissioner’s letter to a US lawmaker

Julie Inman Grant told senators that Australians expect companies providing services into Australia to abide by Australian laws. She also pointed out that since the Wakeley church stabbing case that X challenged in the court and eSafety ended up dropping, the agency had accepted geo-blocking Australian users from seeing the posts as compliance with Australian law.

So the conclusion is nothing that we do here with the Online Safety Act affects anything that an American platform will serve to Americans. So no, it does not impinge upon Americans’ freedom of speech.

I am just in the process of sending that to the chairman right now. I think out of respect for him – when he sent me his letter, he sent it concurrently, it appears, to Sky News – I prefer to send it official to official.

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