Communications minister Anika Wells has introduced Labor’s Digital Duty of Care Bill, draft legislation amending the Online Safety Act, and it is off to committee. NSW premier Chris Minns has put armed police with automatic rifles on Sydney beaches under a social cohesion squad. Discretionary trust reform is also headed to committee, with the top 2% facing the 30% rate. Meta settled a $17 billion case over its algorithms.
Chapters:
00:00 Machine Guns on Beaches
00:40 Bondi and Gun Licences
01:43 Free Speech and Language
02:16 Trust Reform
03:20 Digital Duty of Care
04:26 Free Speech Hypocrisy
05:45 Palantir and Cellebrite
06:50 Regulating the Platforms
07:56 Algorithms and Addiction
08:57 Shifting Risk to Platforms
10:05 Anika Wells Slip-Up
10:50 Scam of the Week
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Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.
