Trump administration attacks Australia’s ‘opt-out’ algorithm law in rare intervention
In an extremely uncommon move, the US government has publicly criticised an Australian government policy proposal.
It wants US social media companies excluded from digital duty of care laws, which would give Australians the option to opt out of algorithmic feeds.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in New York promoting Australian tech policies at the United Nations.
I think equating chronological feeds to an algorithm is needlessly reductive and kind of pedantic. I’m not slamming anyone that argues it, and it does have its own issues.
But nothing is imparted on the content the way it is with a weighted algorithm or any form of synthetic ranking. In fact it’s entirely outside of the application and follows naturally from the flow of time. That can’t be algorithmic behaviour in the way that people argue against.