Billboard Chris wins free speech battle in Australia
Billboard Chris wins free speech battle in Australia By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Saturday, July 05, 2025 A tribunal in Melbourne, Australia, has ruled in favor of Canadian activist Chris "Billboard Chris" Elston, overturning a government order to remove one of his social media posts expressing his views on gender identity, under that country's Online Safety Act. The decision marks a major legal ... for the social media platform X, which had also challenged the takedown order. Elston's post, published in February 2024, criticized the appointment of trans-identified activist Teddy Cook to an expert position at the World Health Organization and referred to Cook using biologically based pronouns. The post was deemed "cyber abuse" by Australia's eSafety Commissioner, who then issued a removal order to X, according to the legal advocacy group ADF International, which, in conjunction with the Human Rights Law Alliance in Australia, coordinated ...
