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The social media platform Elona Men’s X refused to remove the video that Axel Rudakuban watched a few minutes before the murder of three young children, despite numerous demands of government in Australia and the UK.
The Australian Internet Regulatory Body of Esafety announced on Friday that with “great sadness” he noticed that a video – showing the violent insertion of the bishop in Sydney in April – watched the killer on XU, although the regulatory body required the material to be removed from the platform months before before before attack at Southport last summer.
Immediately after the Australian attack, companies, including Google, Microsoft, Snap and Tictok, “acted quickly to work with Esafety and ensure that the video of Wakeley’s insertion could not be accessed from their platforms. Some of these companies have taken additional, proactive steps to reduce the further spread of materials, ”said the regulator. “X Corp decided not to remove the video from his platform.”
The Bishop of Bishop in Western Sydney Circled the Internet in April, but X only geoblocking the recording in AustraliaWhich means that people elsewhere in the world and local VPN users could continue to watch a violent attack.
United King’s Interior Minister Yvette Cooper said this week that the Government had directly contacted X to ask her to remove the video from the platform. “Companies should not profit from hosting content that threatens the lives of children,” she said to the Donji home.
Rudakuban, 18, was sentenced Thursday for a life sentence with at least 52 years in prison after admitting the killing of three young girls on a dance course on Taylor Swift in Southport.
Musk tweed several times after the killings, accusing British Prime Minister Sir Keira Starmer of “giving advantage of mosques instead of British girls at their dance classes.” Musk also enhanced Tweet’s extremely right -wing agitator Tommy Robinson, who claimed that “Muslims run the streets without the challenge of police, attacking all non -Muslims.” The interventions led to charges that he had frightened the tensions that led to clutter last summer throughout British places and cities.
On Friday, Musk shared an article on Southport killings, saying “never forget”.
But he has so far refused to intervene to force his company to remove the video that Rudakubana has watched, and the video is still circulating on Xu from Friday afternoon.
The Financial Times contacted X to ask him why he did not remove the video but did not get an answer.
This week, in the case of Rudakuban, he heard that the search of Lenovo tablet found in his house showed that he had deleted his entire browser history except one search day on the day of the attack. Six minutes before he went to perform the murders, he searched X for “Mar Maria Emmanuel Stabbing”.
When police committed the same search of XA during their investigation, they found that it led to posts containing a shot of the Sydney attack three months earlier.
The prosecution also presented Rudakuban’s online profiles and social media in court, including his X account. From Friday, his x account – which is protected, so only followers can see his posts – not removed.
Australian regulatory body tried to initiate legal procedure to try to force X to comply with the judgment of a complete removal of a video from April, which is a move that divided the country about whether the government suppressed freedom of speech or was right when protected by social media users from harmful and violent content.
Musk criticized the decision, accusing the “commissioner” of Esafety of trying to censorship the Internet.
This sparked a furious reaction of politicians in the country, including Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister, who said that “disturbing” that X was fighting against video removal and criticized a billion’s attitude.
However, a The court opted against extending the prohibition About the video shown on the basis of the X who took “reasonable steps” to stop video display in Australia. The case was considered a potential test whether local regulations could be applied globally.
The E-Security Commissioner has given up a case in June, waiting for the audit of Australian online security laws.
Additional Hannah Murphy report
