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Australia’s internet watchdog has dropped a court case against Elon Musk’s social media platform X, eSafety commissioner Julie Inman-Grant said on Wednesday. Australia wanted to force X to remove footage of a Sydney church stabbing from the platform. X blocked the posts in Australia pending a legal challenge, before the Federal Court ordered the platform to temporarily hide the video for all users globally. Inman-Grant said in a statement a Federal Court case had now been abandoned. “Our sole goal and focus in issuing our removal notice was to prevent this extremely violent footage from going …

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