Elon Musk's X faces Canadian fine for not removing non-consensual intimate images

Source: Reuters

A Canadian civil tribunal has fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X for its refusal to comply with an order to remove a non-consensual intimate image, a decision published last week showed.

British Columbia’s Civil Resolution Tribunal ruled in an initial decision in March that the posting of a particular picture of a woman, referred to pseudonymously as “TR,” violated British Columbia’s Intimate Image Protection Act.

The tribunal’s vice chair, Eric Regehr, ordered the image to be taken down and deleted by X, controlled by Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab founder Musk, and other platforms.

X did not obey that order, a subsequent tribunal decision imposing administrative penalties states. Rather than removing the image, which was being repeatedly posted by an X user, X chose to geofence it, allowing users outside of Canada to continue viewing and sharing it.

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