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Australian Tribunal Rules Against eSafety Commissioner’s “Informal” Censorship of X Post

By Didi Rankovic | Reclaim The Net | February 7, 2025

An Australian woman whose X post was censored based on what are known as “informal” notices, issued by Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant to social platforms, has appealed against the decision and won.

This was more of an uphill battle than getting censorship decisions revoked usually involves: the “informal” nature of the notices means that normally they cannot even be appealed – and eSafety’s main argument was that the appeal should not even be considered.

But the X user, Celine Baumgarten, managed to convince the Administrative Review Tribunal the censorship notice should not be considered “informal” and that her complaint was therefore within the tribunal’s jurisdiction.

Baumgarten’s post from May 2024 detailed a “queer club” in Melbourne that was operating in a primary school, organized for children 8 to 12 years old.

“There is absolutely NO place for any type of LGBTxyz club in a PRIMARY SCHOOL, or any school for that matter,” Baumgarten, herself a bisexual and an activist, wrote at the time, adding, “Children should NOT be learning about sexualities at such a young, impressionable age. This is foul. Leave the kids ALONE.”

Next, in swooped Grant’s office, with what they maintain was no more than a “complaint alert” to X – as opposed to a removal notice – referring to “adult cyber-abuse material” as the reason to have Baumgarten’s post blocked for X users in Australia.

eSafety essentially tried to “sneak in” censorship under the guise of an “informal notice” – aware that an official takedown request was impossible given that they found their own rules were not violated, not in the entirety of their many parts.

X erred on the side of censorship and blocked the post for two months, to then inform Baumgarten this was done “in error.” Interestingly, Instagram, which received the same eSafety notice, ignored it.

And now the tribunal has done much more than vindicate Baumgarten; the judge broke down eSafety’s process to reveal that while asserting that the notice was “informal” and referring to the terms of use X has for itself – the complaint was actually lodged via X’s channels “for use by government authorities to submit valid legal requests for the removal from X of potentially illegal content.”

All this was interpreted by Justice Emilios Kyrou to mean that the censorship notice was clearly official and therefore eligible to be appealed.

Since eSafety prefers what it calls “informal” to “official” takedown notices (several hundred vs. three or four just over the past year), the implication of the ruling could be significant – prompting a review of other such “informal” reports.

February 7, 2025 - Posted by | Civil Liberties, Full Spectrum Dominance | ,

2 Comments »

  1. Gays are paedophiles, as simple as that. Obviously they want to get into schools, especially primary schools, so they can get their hands on little boys to rape. That’s what all this is about – our Jewish ‘masters’, as usual, pushing paedophilia, through the usual threats – “If you dare to disagree with what we are doing, we will get you sacked from your job, and/or put in prison, for ‘hate’ speech”.

    Tell me, when did the population of any White country ask for an “incitement to racial hatred” law?

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    Steve Jones's avatar Comment by Steve Jones | February 7, 2025 | Reply

  2. The dismissal of the e-Commissioner’s ‘complaint alert’ reveals more about her and her department than we would normally find out in the mainstream media. Apart from attempting to silence valid comment, her actions reveal that:

    1. She is not interested in the welfare and protection of Australian children, and
    2. Her action in attempting to shield the inappropriateness of a ‘queer’ club in a primary school with the potential for criminal sexual predation, show an unhealthy bias not compatible with her position.

    She should be dismissed immediately, and her department disbanded as a useless waste of taxpayers’ money.

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    Bill Francis's avatar Comment by Bill Francis | February 8, 2025 | Reply


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