Stabbed Bishop Backs Musk’s Bid to Keep Footage of His Attack on X, Court Told
The Sydney church leader who was stabbed during a livestreamed service last week supports Elon Musk’s view that footage of the attack should remain accessible on X, a court in Australia heard Wednesday.
A lawyer representing the platform formerly known as Twitter claims Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel—a controversial Assyrian Orthodox leader who was allegedly stabbed by a 16-year-old boy—has written an affidavit arguing against the position of Australia’s eSafety commissioner, which ordered the removal of the graphic videos. “He’s strongly of the view that the material should be available,” Marcus Hoyne, an attorney for X, told a federal court, according to The Age.
The bishop was seriously injured in the attack at the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in the Sydney suburb of Wakeley on April 15. His alleged attacker reportedly cited Emmanuel’s previous comments about Islam in the moments after the assault. Australian authorities are treating the matter as a religiously-motivated terrorist act.