Wonderful news, Canadian child protection activist, “Billboard Chris” has scored a huge victory over Australia’s deranged media watchdog, Julie Inman Grant pictured above. It might make one think twice about trusting someone so good looking and cause you to ponder the reason for her employment in this hugely well paid and unnecessary position.

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Free speech just won a landmark victory — and the impact will be felt across the world. Last year, Canadian child-protection activist Billboard Chris (Chris Elston) reposted a Daily Mail article on X (formerly Twitter) that revealed disturbing behaviour by an Australian transgender activist involved in drafting WHO gender care guidelines. For using biologically accurate pronouns and expressing a political view, the Australian Government’s eSafety Commissioner ordered the post be taken down under threat of fines.Chris Elston, aka Billboard Chris, with one of his well-known sandwich board messages against gender ideology.—Now, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal — an independent judicial body in Australia that reviews government decisions — has sided with Billboard Chris and with freedom.“The more focussed question is whether I can be satisfied that the necessary intention to cause serious harm to the subject of the post has been established. Based on the evidence before me, I am not satisfied that it has.” — Deputy President Ian White, Administrative Appeals TribunalThis — in layman’s terms — means calling a woman a woman and a man a man is not cyber-abuse, and the eSafety Commissioner’s attempt to censor such basic truth has been thrown out.This is a victory for common sense. For truth. And for everyone around the world who’s worried about the growing censorship regime from unelected bureaucrats.Here’s what happened.In February 2024, Billboard Chris posted a short comment on X about a transgender activist who had been appointed by the World Health Organization. In the post, he used the phrase:“She’s a woman who changed her name.”That’s it. That was the supposed offence.The eSafety Commissioner demanded the post be removed. X refused, but geoblocked the post in Australia. Chris and X challenged the ruling. And now the Tribunal has ruled in their favour.The Tribunal found that “an ordinary reasonable person” would not believe Chris’s post was “intended to cause serious harm” to the activist. In fact, it noted the post lacked the vitriol, abuse, and malice required to even remotely qualify as “cyber-abuse material” under the law.“The material is not expressed in strident, inflammatory or provocative language… It does not adopt a threatening or malicious tone. It does not employ exaggerated or aggressive expressions.”The decision also delivered a subtle but pointed rebuke to the eSafety Commissioner’s worldview:“The role of the Tribunal is not to assess the merits of what the applicant posted, or to agree or disagree with the views he expressed.”In other words: Free speech is not only for the powerful or politically correct. It’s for everyone.And that’s exactly why this win matters — not just for Australians, but for people everywhere.The Australian eSafety Commissioner’s decisions were having global consequences, with her takedown orders directed at American companies and Canadian citizens for speech published internationally. Billboard Chris was Canadian but he could have very well been British. The powers of this eSafety Commissioner seemed to have been without limits!It’s important to note: this win came entirely through the judicial process. Neither the Australian Government nor the Communications Minister lifted a finger to stop this censorship. This was a judicial win — not a political one.Over 31,000 CitizenGO members asked the Australian Government to defend free speech and step in… and our pleas fell on deaf ears. But the Administrative Review Tribunal was listening!Congratulations to Billboard Chris, Elon Musk and X, and our friends at the Human Rights Law Alliance and the Alliance Defending Freedom, who ran and funded this case from start to finish.Free speech has scored a major win. But the battle is far from over. Thanks for defending freedom, The Team at CitizenGO P.S. The Administrative Review Tribunal has ruled: truth-telling is not cyber-abuse. And the eSafety Commissioner can’t ban the truth! But the eSafety Commissioner isn’t the only enemy of free speech. Not by a long shot! If you want to defend free speech in Australia and beyond, consider a donation to CitizenGO.