Australia’s e-Karen Julie Inman Grant wants to stop Australians from hearing the name Iryna Zarutska You’ve all seen the footage of Iryna being murdered, stabbed to death

on a train by a man twice her size, who had a dozen prior arrests and a history of violence. After her murder, the mainstream media were largely silent. And so effective was their blackout on her brutal murder that she’d been dead for weeks by the time a video showing CCTV footage of her murder went viral thanks only to alternative news website Headline USA.

This attempted media blackout, which was broken by the alternative media, then led to widespread outrage and a social media campaign to say her name, Iryna Zarutska, so that her murder couldn’t be swept under the rug, no matter how politically incorrect it might be, to acknowledge the fact that a large violent black American felon had just stabbed to death a pretty white Ukrainian refugee. Funds were raised for murals to be painted around the world. And some big names got behind that campaign, including notably for this particular story, Elon Musk, who pledged a million US dollars to help fund the murals so that everyone would see her face and everyone would know her name, Iryna Zarutska.

But here in Australia, the former Twitter employee and Elon Musk hater Julie Inman Grant, who for reasons known only to Satan himself, has been appointed as Australia’s E-safety commissioner, is using her powers to stop Australians from hearing and knowing her name, Iryna Zarutska. The e-Karen has issued takedown notices for a bunch of posts on multiple social media platforms which showed video of that brutal murder. The E-safety Commission required that these videos be taken down. The E-safety Commissioner’s statement, which we’ll get to in a moment, says that it’s all about the fact that the classification board have rated the videos RC or refused classification, and that’s why these videos are going to be scrubbed from the Australian internet.

But given the history of Julie Inman Grant personally as a disgruntled ex-Twitter employee with an axe to grind, not to mention a history of trying to scrub previous politically inconvenient videos from the internet, I can’t help but sense that this excuse is just a useful cover. And I suspect that it’s not her actual motivation. But the question now is what happens next. Australia is headed for the introduction of the under 16’s social media ban on December 10th with the associated age verification for all internet users.

Now, as I’ve covered previously, I don’t think that this will have as big an immediate effect on Australians as many are afraid that it will. I believe that Meta and Alphabet, etc., will be able to use many non-invasive methods of ensuring that a given account user is over the age of 16 and they will insist that those methods meet the reasonable steps requirement for this age verification legislation. However, as I’ve also said in previous videos, I don’t think the e-Karen will be satisfied with their approach and lawsuits will follow.

In that context, in the context of Elon Musk having personally helped fund the murals to ensure that no one could forget what happened to Iryna Zarutska and in the context of X having previously beaten the E-safety commissioner in court, these new Iryna Zarutska video takedown notices may well prove to be the first salvo in a major confrontation between X and the E-safety commissioner. And if I’m right, then it will quickly become a proxy war for a showdown between Donald Trump and his commitment to freedom of speech versus Anthony Albanese and his desire to control what we can say.

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Now before we look at the particulars of this content takedown order by Australia’s ecarin, let’s have a quick survey of some of the history that already exists between Elon Musk’s X and the Australian e-safety commissioner Julie Inman Grant. Julie Inman Grant worked for Twitter before Elon Musk bought it and changed the name to X. She was there from 2014 to 2016, and she is credited with developing Twitter’s early policies around content moderation, so-called hate speech, and safety. That lovely sounding but very dangerous term that is so often used to justify increasing government power.

When Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, it took literally just a few hours before he got busy firing a lot of the trust and safety team,

which was essentially the department that carried on the work that Julie Inman Grant started while she worked for Twitter. In November of 2022, Musk reinstated numerous accounts which the Trust and Safety team had previously permanently banned. Accounts including Kanye West and President Donald Trump. Then in April 2023, the Trust and Safety team introduced the freedom of speech, not freedom of reach policy, essentially trying to have a foot in each camp, claiming that they weren’t censoring, but they were instead suppressing.

But that only escalated their conflict with their new owner, Elon Musk, who personally intervened to stop the suppressing of a documentary that was critical of the trans movement, which then triggered the resignation of the then head of trust and safety, Ella Owen. Now, I need to pause here and make a connection. Elon Musk has a child who’s gone down the trans rabbit hole, and he’s pretty pissed off about it. So, it’s personal for him, and there was no way known that he was going to back down on that issue. Just log that in the back of your mind because that’s going to matter later on. Musk wasn’t going to back down, which is why Ella Owen was the one who ended up resigning. And that resignation less than 9 months after Musk took over Twitter, meant that the functional end of censorship of opinion on Twitter, now X, had come and it was the end of the line for the work that Julie Inman Grant had started at Twitter back in 2014.

And in that context, her efforts as the E-safety commissioner to try and force X to take down content that she finds objectionable come into sharp focus. She’s trying to carry on the work for the now dismantled trust and safety team, forcing her will back onto the company that she hasn’t worked for in the last 9 years and which has since rejected everything that she tried to do. The best part for Julie is that she gets to do it spending our money. Our taxpayers’ money funds her salary, funds her department, and indeed funds the lawsuits that inevitably arise out of her efforts to censor the world. So she gets to use her plum position with the Australian government to censor Australians and then make Australians pay for the lawsuits if anyone fights back.

And Elon Musk and X, well, they have fought back on a few occasions. Most notably for our purposes today was the case of Billboard Chris who was found by the E-safety commissioner to have committed the heinous crime of calling somebody what they are rather than what they wanted to be called. The posts from February 2024 were about an Australian supposed female-to-male trans which means in practice a woman wearing manface who had recently been appointed to a World Health Organization expert panel to write care guidelines for trans and non-binary people. Now, I’ll let you go down that rabbit hole if you really want to. What’s relevant to this story is that Julie Inman Grant issued a worldwide takedown order, essentially trying to play God with the internet for the entire human race, which, let’s be honest here, is straight up delusional. And in my opinion, the fact that she even tried that suggests that she’s not psychologically fit for a position of power or public trust. But that’s just my opinion.

Chris Stone, otherwise known as Billboard Chris, sued the E-safety commissioner and was supported by X in that court case and they won with the takedown notice being overturned by the administrative review Tribunal. Now, the fact that it even had to get to a tribunal is the height of absurdity, but let’s put that aside. The E-safety commissioner was wrong to try and censor that post and she lost the case in the tribunal at taxpayers’ expense. Now then in April 2024, the E-safety commissioner was at it again. This time trying to take down a video of the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emanuel. This time X flat out refused the global takedown order, but they did Geoblock it from Australia.

The E-safety commissioner then withdrew her lawsuit, essentially admitting that she didn’t have jurisdiction outside of Australia,

and so the Australian Geoblock being in place meant that she no longer had a case. But this still does kind of go down as a win to the E-safety commissioner because the precedent was now set. Julie Inman Grant could treat the entire country of Australia like a bunch of children with her deciding what we are and what we are not mature enough to be allowed to see. And that’s essentially the state of play as we come to this new takedown order for videos of the stabbing of Iryna Zarutska.

X has complied with the Geoblock yet again to avoid the potential fine of $825,000 per post per day, but has left the posts untouched for the rest of the world. But what X has also done is notify the people whose posts were affected and this detail is important they’ve also provided the entire 20-page takedown notice from Australia’s E-safety commissioner to each of the people whose posts were being censored. The e-Karen’s orders have been provided in full by X to some of the biggest pages in the alt media space who have followers numbering in the millions between them. Now, I don’t think that’s an accident. Elon Musk, I think, is sending a message. He wants us to know.

Eva Vlaardingerbroek summed it up nicely as she broadcast the takedown notice to her 1 million plus followers on X. To summarize that for you, she says, “Australians are paying taxes.” So bureaucrats can censor posts from European activists talking about the murder of a Ukrainian woman in America. Yeah. Now Elon Musk knows that the Trump administration in the US has his back for as long as he’s standing up for freedom of speech. The US State Department said it explicitly in May of this year and they said it on the X platform, no less.

The Department of State is deeply concerned about efforts by governments to coerce American tech companies into targeting individuals for censorship.

Freedom of expression must be protected online and offline. Examples of this conduct are troublingly numerous. EU Commissioner Thierry Breton threatened X for hosting political speech. Turkey fined Meta for refusing to restrict content about protests. And Australia required X to remove a post criticizing an individual for promoting gender ideology. Even when content may be objectionable, censorship undermines democracy, suppresses political opponents, and degrades public safety. The United States opposes efforts to undermine freedom of expression. As Secretary Rubio said, “Our diplomacy will continue to place an emphasis on promoting fundamental freedoms.”

It doesn’t get much clearer than that. Of the three examples they gave, Australia got a mention as one of them. And the Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that US diplomacy will place an emphasis on promoting fundamental freedoms. So this is not just about freedoms for US citizens in the US. Diplomacy is external. They’re using that diplomacy to promote fundamental freedoms abroad as well. But what will that mean in practice?

Well, I believe it means that a showdown is brewing between Julie Inman Grant and Elon Musk specifically, but that that showdown will ultimately bring in Meta, meaning Facebook and Instagram, as well as Alphabet, meaning Google and YouTube as well. And if I’m right and the implementation of the E-safety commissioner’s under 16’s age verification regime on December 10th is the flash point that triggers this next round of lawsuits, then this showdown is going to be biblical because you’d better believe that the secretary of state Marco Rubio is going to be watching. You’d better believe that Vice President JD Vance will get involved as he did in the case of the UK government trying to force Apple to give the UK government a backdoor into their encryption services. And you’d better believe that President Trump himself is going to bring it up with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese if Albo ever gets his much coveted meeting with Trump.

The E-safety Commissioner is picking a fight with Trump, Vance, and Musk all at the same time.

And these are three men who are not accustomed to losing. Now, Julie may think that she has nothing to lose because she’s on the taxpayers’ dime and so are her lawyers. But I actually believe that this showdown, which will kick off in earnest sometime after the December 10th deadline, when she decides that these major tech platforms haven’t taken reasonable steps to verify the age of every user, and she then sues Meta and Alphabet and X accordingly. That showdown is the beginning of the end for her and for the whole e-safety censorship regime in Australia.

It will take a few years for it all to come crashing down and play out through the courts and tribunals and international diplomacy. But mark my words, when people pick through the wreckage of the E-safety office, they will discover that it was Julie Inman Grant’s ego and the chip that she carries on her shoulder against Elon Musk that was their undoing. In the meantime, while that battle plays out over the next few years, we must continue to defy the E-safety commissioner at every opportunity. And that means that despite the commissioner’s efforts to erase the videos of the brutal stabbing, we must continue to remember and to say her name, Iryna Zarutska.

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