This case has raised important questions on how legal powers can be used to threaten global censorship of speech, and we are heartened to see that freedom of speech has prevailed,” X’s global affairs team said in a post.

Australia's safety regulator has ended a legal battle with X (formerly Twitter) after threatening approximately $500,000 daily fines for failing to remove 65 instances of a religiously motivated stabbing video from X globally.

The row between X and the regulator blew up in the wake of the church stabbing. Musk accused Inman Grant of being a “censorship commissar” while Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese blasted Musk as an “arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law.”

Grant, Commissioner of Australia’s online safety regulator, has released a statement confirming that no legal case will be pursued.

Australia has dropped its case against X, formerly Twitter, after a row about removing footage of a stabbing attack on a priest in Sydney.

Australia's cyber safety regulator on Wednesday decided to drop a legal challenge against Elon Musk-owned X over the removal of videos of the stabbing of an Assyrian church bishop in Sydney, after a setback last month in the federal court.