X says ‘free speech has prevailed’ after eSafety commissioner drops case over Wakeley church attack posts

‘Every company with the exception of X Corp – even Telegram and Reddit – took down that Wakeley video,’ eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant says. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Elon Musk’s X has declared that free speech has prevailed after the eSafety commissioner decided to drop the federal court case over the company’s failure to remove tweets of the video of the Wakeley church stabbing attack.

In April, the commissioner ordered X to hide 65 posts of the stabbing attack on bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel while he was giving a livestreamed service at the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church in the Sydney suburb of Wakeley.