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Australia's online regulator got death threats for case against X

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75% Informative

Julie Inman Grant took X to court over its refusal to remove videos of a Sydney church stabbing for its global users.

The case was ultimately dropped, but she says she received an "avalanche of online abuse" after Elon Musk called her the "censorship commissar" in a post to his 196 million followers.

The eSafety commissioner says her children were doxxed and her employees have been threatened.

A Columbia University report found that she had been mentioned in almost 74,000 posts on X ahead of the court proceedings.

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76

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74

Neutral language

79

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

64

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possibly offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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