SocietyAustralia considers making social media algorithms optional and banning strangulation depictions in porn
Australia is considering letting users opt in or out of social media recommendation algorithms and examining the UK’s ban on pornography depicting strangulation and suffocation. Social services minister Tanya Plibersek said algorithms were feeding boys violent misogynistic material and normalising strangulation during sex, as the government develops its next plan on family, domestic and sexual violence.
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Australia considers making social media algorithms optional and banning strangulation depictions in porn
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