After months of delay and failure of the Government to act on a Digital Duty of Care, the Greens will introduce new laws to keep all users safe online. The \u201cFix our Feeds\u201d bill will be introduced into the Senate next week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson for communications, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis verdict confirms what we\u2019ve known for years: social media platforms are deliberately designed to keep people hooked, just like cigarettes or pokie machines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese multi-billion dollar companies are making massive profits off a product that is deliberately designed to be addictive, even when it\u2019s harmful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBig tech is the new big tobacco – an industry that makes its profits off selling addictive, toxic and harmful products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDespite promising 18 months ago to implement a Digital Duty of Care – a law that requires social media companies not to cause harm to their users – the Government has done nothing and is still sitting on its hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cToxic algorithms flood our social media feeds day after day. It\u2019s time to give Australians the power to control what we see in our feeds. Every user should have the freedom to choose what type of content they want to see and to opt out of toxic algorithms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRight now, big tech giants are allowed to set their own rules. There is no requirement forcing these companies to make their platforms safe to use, even when they know they are doing harm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA Digital Duty of Care would force big tech giants to prevent harm before it happens – not just apologise after the damage is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens will introduce new laws that will help keep everyone safe online because the Government has refused to act. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens Fix our Feeds Bill will allow users to opt in or out of predatory algorithms, giving them a safer online experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSocial media apps shouldn\u2019t be able to rig their algorithms to force dangerous content on users for the sake of making mega profits.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After months of delay and failure of the Government to act on a Digital Duty of Care, the Greens will introduce new laws to keep all users safe online. The \u201cFix our Feeds\u201d bill will be introduced into the Senate next week. Greens spokesperson for communications, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young:\u00a0 \u201cThis verdict confirms what we\u2019ve known … Continue reading “US verdict shows urgent need for new Digital Duty of Care laws and opt-out rules for toxic algorithms”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38174,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38173\/revisions\/38174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}