Administrative Review Tribunal … Tribunal asserts jurisdiction over eSafety Commissioner’s practice of issuing complaint alerts to internet service providers … Practice adopted where no basis for formal power to issue removal notices … eSafety Commissioner contested jurisdiction as no power had been exercised … Courts Editor Stephen Murray reports … more
Category: Social Media
Faruqi v Hanson
Federal Court of Australia … Senator Pauline Hanson flags appeal against decision she racially discriminated against Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi … Says she is disappointed by decision … Faruqi welcomes decision, says it draws a line that hate speech is not free speech … Courts Editor Stephen Murray reports … more
Faruqi v Hanson
Federal Court of Australia … Court finds that Senator Pauline Hanson breached s.18C of the Racial Discrimination Act over tweet … Senator Mehreen Faruqi claimed tweet targeted her as an immigrant, person of colour and Muslim … Defence of fair comment rejected … Implied freedom of political communication considered … Courts Editor Stephen Murray reports … more
eSafety Commissioner v X Corporation
AAT settlement … Reform of the classification regime … The difficulty in classifying the Wakely church stabbing … Online material … Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead … Review of the Online Safety Act … Rob Nicholls comments … more
Criminalising online incitements
Riots in English cities fed by online misinformation about refugees … Policing and prosecution policies … Fast and furious processing of offenders … Online Safety Act grapples with new challenges … Increased policing of speech on tech platforms … Hugh Vuillier reports from London … more
eSafety Commissioner v X Corp
Federal Court … eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant withdraws Federal Court proceedings against X Corp … Sought to enforce removal notice of posts featuring knife attack on Assyrian bishop … Will consolidate merits review in AAT … Courts Editor Stephen Murray reports … more
Australian Muslim Advocacy Network Ltd v Twitter Australia Holdings Pty Limited & Anor
Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal … Tribunal rules it has jurisdiction to hear religious vilification complaint against X Corp … Conduct has occurred in Queensland that might amount to a breach of the Anti-Discrimination Act … Act has no extraterritorial reach … Courts Editor Stephen Murray reports … more
eSafety Commissioner v X Corp
Federal Court … Electronic Frontier Foundation and Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression granted leave to intervene in proceedings brought by eSafety Commissioner against X Corp … Courts Editor Stephen Murray reports … more