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Elon Musk’s Social Media Platform X refused to delete a video he watched a few minutes before the killing of three young children, despite many demands from Australian and British authorities. 。
Australia’s Internet Regulator Esafeth said on Friday that a video showing the violent wound of Sydney’s bishops was watched on April by the murderer of X. Platform for several months before attacking with Southport last summer.
Immediately after an Australian attack, companies such as Google, Microsoft, Snap, and Tiktok, “cooperated with ESAFETY and acted so that we could not access the WakeLey Stabing Video from the platform. Some of these companies are part of the material. We have taken additional positive measures to reduce further diffusion, “said a regulatory authority. “X Corp has chose not to delete the video from the platform.”
The videos of the stab wound were distributed online in April, but X only geblocked Australian images. In other words, it means that other people in the world and local users of VPN can keep watching violent attacks.
The British Secretary of Britain Ivet Cooper said this week that the government has contacted X directly to delete the video from the platform. “The company should not benefit from hosting content that risks children’s lives,” she told the House of Representatives.
The 18 -year -old Ludak Bana was sentenced to life imprisonment in a minimum of 52 years of prison on Thursday after acknowledging three young girls in a dance class on the Taylaswift in Southport.
The mask was repeatedly posted in X in the wake of the killing, and British Prime Minister Keal accused him of “giving priority to mosque over British girls in dance classes.” The mask has also amplified the post by Tommy Robinson, a far right agitator, who claimed that Muslims challenged the police and did not attack non -Muslims. The intervention led to the accusation that he was burning the tension of riot in the UK town and cities last summer.
On Friday, the mask said an article about the killing of Southport, “I will never forget.”
However, he has refused to forced the company to delete the video that Ludak Bana has seen, and the video was still distributed in X as of Friday afternoon.
Financial Times contacted X and asked why he did not delete the video but did not respond.
I heard that the Rudakubana case has shown that this week’s search for Lenovo’s tablet found at his house has deleted the overall history of the browser apart from the one -time search day. Six minutes before he left the murder, he was looking for X “Mar Mari EMMANUEL STABBING”.
When the police performed the same X search during the investigation, they found that it led to a post, including a video of Sydney attacks, three months ago.
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The prosecutor also outlined Rudakubana’s online profile and social media handles in court, including his X account. As of Friday, his X account (only followers could see his posts because of being protected) was not defeated.
In April, Australian regulatory authorities tried to take legal measures to enforce X to completely delete the video. And violent content.
The mask criticized the decision and blamed Esafety’s “Comicers” when he was trying to censor the Internet.
It caused a fierce response from politicians in the country, including the Prime Minister, Anthony Arbanese. He said that X was “pain” to fight the order to delete the video, criticizing the stance of the billionaire.
However, the court chose to extend the video injection order based on the basis of “rational measures” to stop the video displayed in Australia. This case was considered a potential test case for local regulations on global bass.
ESAFETY COMMISSIONER has withdrawn the lawsuit in June after the Australian online safety law.
Additional reports by Hannah Murphy
