US government publicly calls Australia's algorithm opt-out bill 'extraterritorial censorship' and asks for a US-company exemption
ABC News Australia (corroborated by Bloomberg via Techmeme and AOL)·medium signal
The Trump administration filed a public submission against Australia's digital duty-of-care bill, which would let users opt out of algorithmic recommendation feeds. It called the bill 'extraterritorial censorship of protected speech' and asked that US social platforms be excluded, which would remove the largest platforms from the law's reach. ABC notes that a foreign government weighing in publicly on a domestic bill like this is rare.