Whose Side Are You On?
About this episode
The episode discusses Australia's digital duty of care and the rise of populism in politics.
Is Australia's looming digital duty of care about censorship, as its critics claim, or about handing control back to the people whose attention is being sold to advertisers? With Meta's $18 billion US settlement still fresh and an exposure draft due out within hours, independent MP for Curtin Kate Chaney makes the case for a broad duty on tech platforms to prevent foreseeable harm — and why she thinks this fight has nothing to do with free speech at all. THEN: from Perth's outer suburbs to a state election in Germany, the populist right is romping home wherever voters are abandoning the major parties. So why isn't the same thing happening on the left? After One Nation's rout of Labor in the Secret Harbour by-election, the Australia Institute's Richard Dennis and the University of Sydney's Stewart Jackson join Mark and Marija to ask whether the Greens have got too clever by half, too comfortable inside parliament, and too reluctant to just say whose side they're on. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Hosts: Mark Kenny, Marija
Guests: Kate Chaney, Richard Dennis, Stewart Jackson
Topics covered
- digital duty of care
- censorship
- populism
- free speech
- political parties
- elections
Keywords
- digital duty of care
- censorship
- Meta settlement
- populist right
- Labor
- Greens
- political strategy
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Meta, Australia Institute, University of Sydney
Places: Australia, Perth, Germany
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