The Albanese Government is taking the next step following its world leading social media age ban to ensure Australians have more choice online, with draft legislation for the Digital Duty of Care released today for targeted consultation.These new laws will put the onus on digital service providers to provide a safe online environment, setting minimum standards for the features and tools they use.This will include an Australian first, “My Feed, My Way,” initiative which will give Australians control over their social media algorithms.
Which makes “opt out of algorithms” even more wrong.
They should define a bare minimum baseline of data points that should be made available to users to control the content they want to see
I’m not a fan of specifying too much here. Many platforms don’t track location while other fields that we can’t think of in advance might be useful. Finding a more general rule that still gets the intent across might be hard but I’d rather have it a bit under-specified than suddenly requiring a social media site to track my location every time I post because someone wasn’t careful enough when writing the text of a law.
Which makes “opt out of algorithms” even more wrong.
I’m not a fan of specifying too much here. Many platforms don’t track location while other fields that we can’t think of in advance might be useful. Finding a more general rule that still gets the intent across might be hard but I’d rather have it a bit under-specified than suddenly requiring a social media site to track my location every time I post because someone wasn’t careful enough when writing the text of a law.
Other than that, I agree 100%.