{"id":71502,"date":"2026-09-09T06:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/the-orwellian-machinery-critics-are-desperate-to-protect-is-the-algorithms-not-laws-that-seek-to-reduce-harm-ed-coper\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T06:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:17:25","slug":"the-orwellian-machinery-critics-are-desperate-to-protect-is-the-algorithms-not-laws-that-seek-to-reduce-harm-ed-coper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/the-orwellian-machinery-critics-are-desperate-to-protect-is-the-algorithms-not-laws-that-seek-to-reduce-harm-ed-coper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orwellian machinery critics are desperate to protect is the algorithms, not laws that seek to reduce harm | Ed Coper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics of Australia\u2019s digital duty of care bill stand in defence of the right of platforms to promote harm over health, rage over reason, and fake over fact<\/p>\n<p>The algorithms have been kind to Pauline Hanson, which must be why she was so quick to jump to their defence when the Albanese government moved to rein them in this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLabor is copying the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s censorship playbook,\u201d she posted on Facebook, of all places \u2013 you know, the platform that is alleged to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4grrwvn1lyo\">compliantly adopted<\/a> the Chinese Communist party\u2019s censorship playbook, in order to operate in China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/sep\/09\/orwellian-machinery-critics-are-desperate-to-protect-is-the-algorithms-not-laws-that-seek-to-reduce-harm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics of Australia\u2019s digital duty of care bill stand in defence of the right of platforms to promote harm over health, rage over reason, and fake over fact The algorithms have been kind to Pauline Hanson, which must be why she was so quick to jump to their defence when the Albanese government moved to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}