{"id":2213204,"date":"2024-04-04T16:21:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T20:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-battles-australian-esafety-office-exposed-by-michael-knowles-as-global-threat-to-free-speech\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T16:21:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T20:21:39","slug":"musk-battles-australian-esafety-office-exposed-by-michael-knowles-as-global-threat-to-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-battles-australian-esafety-office-exposed-by-michael-knowles-as-global-threat-to-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Challenges Australian eSafety Office&#8217;s Role in Global Free Speech Debate by Michael Knowles"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmusk-battles-australian-esafety-office-exposed-by-michael-knowles-as-global-threat-to-free-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2213204&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Elon Musk plans to take legal action against the Australian government for demanding the removal of a post criticizing\u200c a transgender activist.\u2062 The\u200d government&#8217;s eSafety\u2062 policies were cited as the reason for the\u2062 demand.\u2064 This\u2064 move follows warnings about free speech threats made\u200d by Michael Knowles regarding the eSafety Commissioner&#8217;s views and affiliations with \u200bthe World Economic Forum. Elon Musk intends to sue the Australian \u2062government for requesting\u2062 the deletion of a post that\u200c criticized a transgender activist. The demand was based on \u200cthe government&#8217;s eSafety policies.\u200d This \u2064action \u2062comes after \u2063warnings from Michael Knowles about potential \u2062threats to\u200b free speech due to the views and connections of the eSafety \u2064Commissioner with the World \u200bEconomic Forum.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elon Musk plans to file a free speech lawsuit against the Australian government after it demanded that X remove a post critical of a radical transgender-identifying activist it claimed violated the government\u2019s eSafety policies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Musk\u2019s plan comes after the Australian government\u2019s eSafety Commissioner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/michael-knowles-uncovers-wefs-sinister-threat-to-free-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julie Inman-Grant,<\/a> told Chris Elston, a Canadian opponent of gender ideology known by the name Billboard Chris, to take down a post that was critical of Australian activist Teddy Cook. Additionally, Australia threatened X with an $800,000 AUD fine if the post was not removed. Cook is a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanrights.unsw.edu.au\/research\/commentary\/pronouns-trans-advocacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leftist<\/a> activist who was recently appointed as an expert on a World Health Organization panel. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEarlier this week, X was ordered by the Australian E-Safety Commissioner, subject to an approximately $800,000 AUD fine, to remove a user\u2019s post,\u201d X\u2019s Global Government Affairs Team said<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cThe post had criticized an individual appointed by the World Health Organization to serve as an expert on transgender issues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cX is withholding the post in Australia in compliance with the order but intends to file a legal challenge to the order to protect its user\u2019s right to free speech,\u201d X said. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Earlier this week, X was ordered by the Australian E-Safety Commissioner, subject to an approximately $800,000 AUD fine, to remove a user&#8217;s post. The post had criticized an individual appointed by the World Health Organization to serve as an expert on transgender issues. <\/p>\n<p>X is\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlobalAffairs\/status\/1773738656588533856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Musk\u2019s battle with Australia comes just over a year after Daily Wire host Michael Knowles warned about the threats to free speech that Commissioner Grant might pose beyond Australia\u2019s borders because of her ideological beliefs and ties to the World Economic Forum. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In January 2023, Knowles revealed in a lengthy X thread that Grant, who previously suggested a \u201crecalibration\u201d of free speech, had listed hate speech, \u201cdehumanization,\u201d and \u201cindividual identity attacks\u201d as \u201conline harms\u201d on the government\u2019s official eSafety website. Grant also has been part of the World Economic Forum\u2019s \u201cGlobal Coalition for Digital Safety.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In this case, I do in fact hate to say I told ya so\u2026<\/p>\n<p>cc: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillboardChris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BillboardChris<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y8w6jtsN35\">https:\/\/t.co\/y8w6jtsN35<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaeljknowles\/status\/1773189056836280770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last month, the eSafety Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13258303\/Elon-Musk-Australian-government-eSafety-Commissioner.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took action<\/a> after Elston commented and shared an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13119521\/Sex-secrets-trans-kinky-Australian-bondage-bestiality-nudism-drugs-sex-change.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  from The Daily Mail that said Cook had a social media page filled with public nudity, bondage parties, trans orgies, and even a photo of a person appearing to have sex with a dog. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After sharing the article, Elston was sent a letter from the Australia eSafety Commission telling him to remove the post.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAn ordinary reasonable person in the position of the Complainant would regard the Material as being offensive,\u201d the letter said. \u201c\u2019This is because the Material singles out the Complainant to personify the poster\u2019s contempt for transgender identity as well as equating transgender identity with a psychiatric condition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elston refused to take the post down, saying he was not guilty of what the Australian government accused him of, and announced on Wednesday that he had <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillboardChris\/status\/1775600390681264403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appealed<\/a> the takedown order. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">X has blocked the post in Australia while it pursues legal action against the country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk intends to sue the Australian government for free speech infringement. The government requested X to delete a post criticizing a transgender activist. Musk&#8217;s action follows the eSafety Commissioner&#8217;s warning to Chris Elston, a Canadian gender ideology critic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":2213205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/MixCollage-04-Apr-2024-12-29-PM-8778-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2213204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/MixCollage-04-Apr-2024-12-29-PM-8778-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2213205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}