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What the fight against Elon Musk means for global censorship

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Elon Musk has been posting on X about the eSafety Commissioner and Australian politicans. (Reuters: Gonzalo Fuentes)

The fight between Elon Musk, the eSafety Commissioner and the Australian government is continuing over whether footage of the Sydney church stabbing should be completely removed from X.

eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant says geoblocking the video doesn't go far enough. Elon Musk says it's "global censorship".

So what could this battle for global content take-downs mean for the entire  internet?

Dave Marchese speaks with Dan Svantesson, a professor specialising in internet law at Bond University.

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