# X overturns Australian ban on footage of Charlie Kirk shooting
The Australian classification review board has overturned a decision to block Australians from seeing footage of the shooting of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk on social media after Elon Musk’s X appealed against the ruling sought by the eSafety commissioner.
After Kirk’s death at Utah Valley University on 10 September,the eSafety commissioner applied to the board to have video of the shooting classified in Australia. The video was initially ruled “refused classification,” allowing eSafety to serve notices on social media platforms ordering them to geo-block the posts from view for Australia-based users.
X appealed against the ruling on two separate Kirk videos. It also appealed a ruling on another video also deemed refused classification – the attack on Iryna Zarutska on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina in August.
X was accomplished in both cases. In the Kirk case, X argued the video contained brief violence, with no weapon visible. The footage was grainy and the camera moves away from the victim to the crowd quickly.
The social media company argued the video was not excessively detailed, gratuitous, or offensive, adding
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