The U.S. government "wants US social media companies excluded from digital duty of care laws, which would give Australians the option to opt out of algorithmic feeds." Why would this matter? The algorithm is the difference between a social networking service that connects users with people and resources they want and a social networking service that is a channel for advertising and political messaging. Obviously there's a lot more money to be made by the latter, but it also causes a lot of harm. The public interest and social education are fulfilled much better by the former. At some point, instead of simply banning social media for children, people need to have the right to define and build their own algorithms, serving their own interests, without corporate and political interests intervening in the process.
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