By Alexander Darling Erin Pearson
Lawyers for social media platform X have declared a judgment that found in X’s favour against the eSafety Commissioner “a win for free speech in Australia”.
On Tuesday, the Administrative Review Tribunal struck out an order by Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant, which demanded that Elon Musk’s X remove a post that insulted a transgender Australian man.
The order was made in Mach 2024 and relates to an X post about trans rights activist Teddy Cook, who is director of community health at NSW health organisation ACON.
Chris Elston, known on X as Billboard Chris, misgendered and insulted Cook, equated transgender identity with mental illness, and linked to an article suggesting Cook was “too smutty” for intergovernmental work.