Using Australian laws to force a foreign-owned platform to take down content globally sets a risky precedent – should we allow all countries to impose their laws on the internet?
Do Australian courts have the right to decide what foreign citizens, located overseas, view online on a foreign-owned platform?
Read more: Elon Musk is mad he's been ordered to remove Sydney church stabbing videos from X. He'd be more furious if he saw our other laws It is also too simplistic to just focus on efficiency, as was done in the context of so-called geo-blocking – the use of geo-location technologies to block users from a specific location. Attempts to block online piracy sites, for example, have famously been ineffective.
Ordering X to use geo-location technologies to block Australians from viewing the content would be sufficient to prevent the general Australian public from coming into contact with the video. Doing so would also show respect for the fact that different countries have different laws.
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