Elon Musk’s X wins appeal to lift block on Australians seeing Charlie Kirk shooting footage

In successful challenge, X argued the video wasn't excessively offensive and was an objective record of a public event of historical and political significance'

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The Australian classification review board has overturned a decision to block Australians seeing footage of the shooting of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk on social media after Elon Musk's X appealed against the ruling sought by the eSafety commissioner.

After Kirk's death at Utah Valley University on 10 September, the eSafety commissioner applied to the board to have video of the shooting classified in Australia. The video was ruled to be refused classification", which allowed eSafety to serve notices on social media platforms ordering them to geo-block the posts from view for Australia-based users.