It began with a man, and then a boy. 

The massacre at Bondi Junction. And the stabbing of a bishop during a Wakeley church service. 

Both horrific actions were captured in real time, and the images of the knife, of the death, the horror the shock and the grief, then broadcast to the world. 

The mainstream media showed what they needed to amid the strict controls which govern what can be shown by an Australian media company. 

On social media – no such control.  

 Australia’s e-safety commissioner stood up and called for those images - to be taken down. X, formerly known as Twitter, refused. 

Dr Dana McKay, Associate Dean of Interaction, Technology and Information in the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University joins host Tim Clarke to walk through the Government vs Goliath legal battle currently playing out in the Federal Court.

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