reclaimthenet on Nostr: Australia is inching closer to making Big Tech the country’s content police, and ...

Australia is inching closer to making Big Tech the country’s content police, and it’s all being framed as "care."

Communications Minister Michelle Rowland just announced the government’s push for a new “Digital Duty of Care,” which is supposed to make online platforms “safer and healthier.” The catch? Platforms will be forced preemptively to censor and remove content that doesn’t meet government standards.