Celine Baumgarten, supported by the Free Speech Union of Australia, went to the Administrative Review Tribunal to appeal a notice to take down the post from eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, and on Wednesday Justice Emilios Kyrou ruled in her favour.
“This is a wonderful victory for free speech in these uncertain times, as it proves even the eSafety Commissioner herself isn’t above the law,” –Celine Baumgarten
Ms Baumgarten’s case is the latest in a series of legal losses for Ms Inman Grant, who recently attended a secretive AI summit without informing the public.
The eSafety office tried to claim that they only issued an “informal notice” to take down the post and that therefore it could not be legally challenged, but Justice Kyrou said that approach raised serious concerns about the Commissioner’s practices.
Newly released figures reveal the true cost of Julie Inman-Grant’s international travel over the past three years.
Ms Baumgarten’s case is the latest in a series of legal losses for Ms Inman Grant, who recently attended a secretive AI summit without informing the public.
Ms Inman Grant, an unelected American-born bureaucrat with a taxpayer-funded salary of more then $445,000 a year, in October abandoned her final attempt to force X to stop Australians from seeing videos of the alleged Islamic terrorist stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel.
That development came three months after she aborted attempts to force X to delete the videos after losing a bid to keep an injunction on the platform over the posts the previous month. The case sparked a war of words with X owner Elon Musk, and backlash from the Australian public.
In July Ms Inman Grant was caught spreading misinformation about “violent extremism” and racist abuse, and later that month critics called for her sacking after she made a biased speech about Donald Trump.
Zuckerbugger can’t be trusted.
