US Congressional Report shows eSafety Commissioner aided in attempt to hinder free speech on X
Sky News host James Morrow discusses a US Congressional Report which shows emails from Australia's eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, attempting to regulate free speech on X with the help of the Global Alliance For Responsible Media.
'Thanks to this Congressional Report from the House Judiciary Committee, we have learned more about Inman Grant's activities, including her communications with the head of this advertising cartel, the Global Alliance For Responsible Media, or GARM, Which happily has been shut down but which, according to Daily Wire Dot Com used 'its control of the global advertising spending to bankrupt conservative publishers, was working with regulators in Europe and Australia to force Twitter, now X, to fall in line with its censorship demands'.
'The scary thing is, this report suggests that they may have been an Australian bureaucracy, headed by an American-born woman, and created by a supposedly Liberal centre-right government, to do it.'
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