A prominent Republican politician has called on Australia's eSafety commissioner to front the US Congress for questioning, accusing her of being a "zealot" who is "threatening American free speech".

House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan wrote to Julie Inman Grant on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT), calling her to testify in a committee hearing and giving her two weeks to respond.

Jordan highlighted the eSafety commissioner's attempt to force billionaire Elon Musk's social media platform, X, to takedown videos of a Sydney church stabbing and claimed Inman Grant had "colluded with pro-censorship entities in the United States".

"As the Australian eSafety Commissioner, you are the official primarily responsible for enforcing Australia's Online Safety Act (OSA), which imposes obligati

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