eSafety Commissioner linked to global attempt to ‘throttle' free speech
Sky News host James Morrow brutally roasts eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant for her efforts to censor free speech online.
'Well, have I got a truth bomb for you this week – it's all about a devastating report that has just dropped out of Washington, DC, with extraordinary new information about the Australian government's efforts to censor what you can say and do and think online,' Mr Morrow said.
'Specifically, the alleged links between … Julie Inman Grant, Australia's eSafety Commissioner as she is officially known, or as we call her on Outsiders the e-Karen, and a shadowy US-based online advertising cabal which a US House Judiciary Committee Interim Report says set out to throttle advertising dollars from websites and social media platforms, particularly Elon Musk's Twitter, that dared to allow free speech and conservative ideas to flourish.'
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