Do Australian courts have the right to decide what foreign citizens, located overseas, view online on a foreign-owned platform?

Anyone inclined to answer “yes” to this question should perhaps also ask themselves whether they are equally happy for courts in China, Russia and Iran to determine what Australians can see and post online in Australia.

This is the problem with global “take-down orders”, an issue we now must confront in light of the Australian eSafety commissioner demanding that social media platform X (formerly Twitter) remove videos of a violent stabbing at a church in Sydney.

  • Ilandar
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    2 months ago

    Yes but if the platform/company is based in the US then of course US laws directly apply to it. Whether global users can or do access the content is irrelevant to the comparison you’re making. In the Twitter vs Australia situation, Musk is arguing his US-based company cannot be forced to take down content based on Australian laws alone.