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Billboard Chris forces Australia to back down after tribunal threatened X with $800,000 fine for his post critical of transgender WHO official

Conservative activist and children’s safety campaigner “Billboard Chris” took a victory lap Wednesday after successfully suing part of the Australian government for trying to censor his posts critical of government officials that advocate for transgender operations.

Following a lawsuit filed by social media platform X and the conservative activist – whose real name is Chris Elston – the Australian government was forced to back down from its demands that X delete Elston’s 2024 post criticizing a World Health Organization bureaucrat for what Elston described as their pro-child gender operation views.

“I think this was a very large dose of rationality for Australia, which has really gone off the deep end in terms of censorship,” Elston told Fox News Digital following an Australian Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) ruling this week that Elston could leave his post on the platform.

Elston added that the ruling was “a decisive victory” and declared that “Australians should rejoice because they’re free to call a man a man, and a woman a woman.”

X’s official Global Government Affairs account reacted to the verdict, stating, “This is a decisive win for free speech in Australia and around the world. X will continue to fight against coercive state censorship and to defend our users’ rights to free speech.”