X lost a court battle after trying to claim ‘Twitter ceased to exist’

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X lost a court battle after trying to claim ‘

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ceased to exist’

X has lost a legal ****** in Australia in which the company tried to avoid a $400,000 fine by claiming that

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no longer exists. The creative legal argument, first ArsTechnica, came amid a more than year-long dispute with Australia’s eSafety Commission.

The commission had asked the company, then known as

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, to provide details about its handling of child ******* exploitation on the platform last February. In its response, X ******* to answer a number of questions and left “some sections entirely blank,” the commission said in a statement . As a result, the eSafety Commission slapped the company with a more than $415,000 fine for non-compliance.

It was an attempt to ****** that fine that led to X’s claim that it shouldn’t be responsible since

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had “ceased to exist.” From the

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X Corp submitted that, on and from 15 March 2023,

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Inc ceased to be a person, and therefore ceased to be a provider of a social media service. It was submitted that

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Inc therefore lacked capacity to comply with the notice, and that X Corp was not obliged to prepare any report in

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Inc’s place, as X Corp was not the same person as the provider to whom the notice was issued.

The argument isn’t exactly new for the Elon Musk-owned entity. CEO Linda Yaccarino has also repeatedly claimed that X is a “brand new company” in a bid to avoid scrutiny. She repeated the line multiple times earlier this year at a Senate hearing on child safety issues.

Australia federal Judge Michael Wheelahan, however, found the claim unconvincing, saying that X’s argument required “leaps in logic that were not supported by adequate explanation.” X didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

In , eSafety Commissioner Inman Grant cheered the decision. “Had X Corp’s argument been accepted by the Court it could have set the concerning precedent that a foreign company’s merger with another foreign company might enable it to avoid regulatory obligations in Australia,” Grant said.

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