Australia introduces online-safety bill with proposed feed choice

Australia introduced its Digital Duty of Care bill to Parliament on Thursday. The proposal would require online services to reduce serious harms and would let social-media users over 16 choose between recommended content and a feed of accounts they follow. Consultation on the proposed feed rule is open. Introduction is not enactment, and the option is not being described as available worldwide or already active.

Photograph: Sheba_Also. Parliament House in Canberra; archival November2017 photograph. Cropped and branded; adaptation offered under CC BY-SA 2.0.

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• Australian government
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