X refuses to remove stabbing video watched by Southport killer

Unlock the editor’s digest in free

FT editor Raula Khalaf selected his favorite stories in this weekly newsletter.

Despite the numerous requests from Australia and UK authorities, Axel Rudakubana refused to remove such a video a few minutes before the assassination of Elon Mask’s social media platform X killing three young children.

Australian Internet Controller Asfety said on Friday that it was “very sad” that the video showed a bishop violent stabbing in Sydney in April – the controller requested that the controller should be dropped from the platform a few months ago. Attack on Southport last summerThe

Australian attacks immediately worked quickly to ensure that the stabbing video could not be accessed from their platforms to co -operate with ESFTT “ESFTTT, with Google, Microsoft, Snap and Tikatok The action was taken ”

Video footage of a bishop stabbing a church in West Sydney was aired online in April but x simply gwblak the footage AustraliaThis means that people and VPN local users elsewhere in the world can continue to see the violent attack.

UK Home Secretary Yavet Cooper said this week that the government was directly contacting X to remove the video from the platform. He told the House of Commons, “Companies should not profit from hosting that has put children’s lives at risk.”

Rudakuban, a 3-year-old on Thursday, was sentenced to life imprisonment after admitting the killing of three young girls in Southport’s Taylor Swift-Them-you dance class.

In the wake of the murder, repeatedly tweeted that UK Prime Minister Sir Care Starmar had “prioritize the mosque on British girls in their dance class.” Tommy Robinson’s tweets also expanded the remote movement of the musk that “Muslims are on the road unchanged by the police, attacking any non -Muslims”. The intervention led to the allegations that he was spreading tensions that rioted in British cities and cities last summer.

On Friday, Kasturi shared an article about the Southport murder, saying, “Never forget.”

However, he has refused to interfere with his company to bring down the video that Rudakubana has watched so far and the video is still being aired on X on Friday afternoon.

The Financial Times did not remove the video why it contacted X, but did not receive any response.

The court in the Rudakubana case had heard that a Lenovo tablet found in his house showed that he had deleted the history of his entire browser without a search on the day of the attack. Six minutes before the murder, he searched X for “Marie Mary Emmanuel Stabbing”.

When the police conducted the same search of X during their investigation, they found that it led to the footage of the Sydney attack three months ago.

The prosecution also outlined Rudakubana’s online profile and social media handles in the court with his X account. Until Friday, his X account – which is secure, so that only followers could see his posts – not down.

Australian regulators tried to take legal action to try to comply with a verdict to fully remove the video in April. It was a step that divided the country to whether the government was suppressing free speech or whether social media users were right to protect users from harmful And violent content.

Kasturi complained of “Commisa”, accusing him of trying to censor the Internet by criticizing the decision.

The Prime Minister encouraged a fierce response from the politicians of the country, including Anthony Albaniz, who said it was “boring” that X was fighting against the removal of the video and criticizing the position of billionaire.

However, a The court has chosen against the prohibition of orders The video is shown that X took “reasonable steps” to stop showing the video in Australia. This case was seen as a possible test case for whether local rules could be applied worldwide.

The ESFT Commissioner excludes its case by pending a review of Australia’s online security laws in June.

Hannah Murphy Additional Report