Sydney:
An Australian court upheld an order on Friday for Elon Musk’s X to pay a fine of A$610,500 ($418,000) for fall shorting to corun with a regulator’s ask for proposeation about anti-child-mistreatment rehearses.
X had contestd the fine but the Federal Court of Australia ruled it was obliged to react to a see from the eSafety Corelocaterlookioner, an internet safety regulator, seeking proposeation about steps to compriseress child relationsual misengage material on the platcreate.
Musk took X, then called Twitter, personal in 2022. But the company had debated it was not bound to react to the see in timely 2023 becaengage it was felderlyed into a novel Musk-handleled corporate entity, removing liability.
“Had X Corp’s argument been acunderstandledgeed by the Court it could have set the troubleing pwithdrawnt that a foreign company’s uniter with another foreign company might assist it to evade regulatory obligations in Australia,” eSafety Corelocaterlookioner Julie Inman Grant shelp in a statement adhereing the verdict.
eSafety has also commenceed civil persistings aacquirest X becaengage of its non-compliance.
X did not promptly react to a ask for comment on Friday.
This is not the first dispute between Musk and the Australian internet safety regulator. The eSafety Corelocaterlookioner earlier this year ordered X to delete posts shoprosperg a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a sermon.
X contestd the order in court on the grounds that a regulator in one country should not choose what internet engagers seeed around the world, and ultimately kept the posts up after the Australian regulator withdrew its case.
Musk shelp at the time the order was handle and dispensed posts describing the order, which would have applied globassociate, as a plot by the World Economic Forum to impose eSafety rules on the world.
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