Australia news live: PM announces $600m package against drug-smuggling; Chanel Contos urges action on ‘manosphere’
원문 보기Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastConsent education advocate Chanel Contos will urge Australia enforce a social media opt-in algorithm to help reduce the influence of the “manosphere” on both men and women.Contos will deliver a speech about the harms of social media algorithms in Australia in an address to the National Press Club in Canberra at midday.This is crucial, and the detail in any reform will determine its success – as will be the overall strength of the proposed Digital Duty of Care reforms that are needed in their own right. It is too easy for Big Tech to design schemes that appear as structural reform but actually suit them just fine.It usually starts with something as harmless as a work out video, or motivational content. Very quickly, boys and men are taken into the “manosphere”, communities that persistently promote the idea that emotional control, material wealth, and physical appearance and dominance, especially over women, are markers of male worth.This is harmful to the individual man consuming this content, and then anyone else close to him in life, including other men, but disproportionately women and girls. Continue reading...