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United States Congress. Uh, Congressman
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Jim Jordan has written a a pretty
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dramatic letter to Stanford University.
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In that letter, he does uh accuse
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Stanford of seeking to undermine uh
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Americans free speech rights. He
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explicitly calls out uh the involvement
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of our e- safety commissioner in in a
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conference that they had received leaked
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documents around. Uh uh now the the
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request here just to be clear the
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request is for Stanford to release
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communications between themselves and
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other foreign governments and agencies
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including presumably well Australia is
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mentioned in those requests. He goes on
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Jim Jordan goes on I'm just going to
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quote from it here to get it right. He
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goes on to say that by accusing Stanford
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by hosting this event designed to
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encourage and facilitate censorship
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compliance compliance with regulators
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from Australia, Brazil, the EU and the
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UK, Stanford is working with foreign
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censorship officials to visiate the
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first amendment. So, they're pretty
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serious claims and and I'm also I don't
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know if uh if the E safety commission
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has had anything like doing anything
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like that right now. But what I do know
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is that she has lost a number of court
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cases already in this country showing
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that she's gone beyond the purview set
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by her by from the parliament including
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seeking to request global takedown
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orders of content. And I think this time
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we have a deeper look here at this
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because I don't think the parliament set
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up the e safety commissioner to regulate
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the world. Um, it was to to help keep
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Australians safe here and online. So,
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uh, it was originally
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safety, Matt. It was originally focused
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on child safety and it morphed into this
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role. So, so just very quickly, do you
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would you like to see a parliamentary
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what is going on in this department?
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That's what I've called for today. The E
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safety commissioner has announced that
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she is not going to continue in the
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role. But regardless of who takes the
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role, I think it's very important that
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government agencies, especially ones
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dealing with foreign governments here in
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this case, aren't going above and beyond
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what the parliament wants and also what
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the Australian government wants. They
