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ESafety commissioner wins two-day injunction against X over violent content

The eSafety commissioner has been granted a two-day legal injunction to compel social media platform X to hide posts that include graphic footage relating to the Wakeley stabbing.

In short: The eSafety commissioner won a two-day injunction requiring social media platform X to hide from all users certain content relating to the Wakeley stabbing. The eSafety commissioner has been granted a two-day legal injunction to compel X to hide posts that include graphic footage relating to the Wakeley stabbing. But now the eSafety commissioner has taken the matter to court, arguing X has failed to comply with the law because its interim action was to "geoblock" the content, not delete it.

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