Elon Musk’s social media platform X received a reprieve Monday after an Australian court docket refused to increase a short lived order to dam movies of a Sydney church stabbing.

A federal court docket choose has denied a bid by Australia’s on-line watchdog eSafety Commissioner, to increase an injunction to take away posts on X displaying the violent assault of a priest in April, in accordance to local media.

Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was stabbed throughout a livestreamed sermon that was extensively circulated on-line, racking up a whole lot of 1000’s of views.  

Following the incident, the nation’s eSafety Commissioner was granted a short lived authorized injunction ordering X to cover posts that confirmed footage of the assault.

Tech billionaire Musk challenged the sooner court docket order as an assault on free speech.

“Our concern is that if ANY nation is allowed to censor content material for ALL nations, which is what the Australian ‘eSafety Commissar’ is demanding, then what’s to cease any nation from controlling the complete Web?” Musk posted on X.

The incident provoked a fierce conflict between Musk and the Australian authorities, together with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

In an interview final month, Albanese mentioned Musk thinks “he is above Australian regulation” and referred to as him out for his “conceitedness.”

“The e-Security Commissioner has made a ruling. The opposite social media platforms all complied with out criticism. It is a measure that has a bipartisan assist on this nation,” Albanese mentioned at the moment.

“This is not about censorship,” however about “decency” and Musk ought to “present some,” he added.

In response, Musk posted on X: “I don’t assume I am above the regulation. Does the PM assume he ought to have jurisdiction over all of Earth?” referring to Albanese.

“This platform adheres to the legal guidelines of nations in these nations, however it could be improper to increase one nation’s rulings to different nations,” he added.

In a press release last month relating to the difficulty, Australia’s on-line regulator mentioned it is robust to utterly take away damaging content material on-line, particularly since customers proceed to repost them.

Nonetheless, on-line security “requires platforms to do the whole lot sensible and cheap to reduce the hurt it could trigger to Australians,” the eSafety Commissioner added.