Republican who called eSafety head a 'zealot' persists with call to testify

The powerful chair of a United States congressional committee who called in the head of Australia's internet regulator to testify before US Congress says he does not think foreign governments should be telling America about its "First Amendment liberties".

Representative Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio, recently wrote to Australia's eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant to request that she provide testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.

The letter references Ms Inman Grant's attempts last year to have the social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, remove or hide graphic video of a stabbing attack on a Western Sydney bishop.

Mr Jordan chairs a committee that is conducting oversight of how foreign laws and regulations "compel, coerce or influence" companies to censor speec