How the ‘digital duty of care’ bill could undermine vital sex and drug education online

By Isabelle Volpe, Research Fellow, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University; UNSW
Daniel Reeders, PhD Candidate, ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University
Kate Seear, Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
Kath Albury, Professor of Media and Communication and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology

Safety messages about drugs and sex are already routinely misidentified and removed from social media platforms. The proposed bill would take this further.

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