{
  "id": 6364684,
  "title": "The Orwellian machinery critics are desperate to protect is the algorithms, not laws that seek to reduce harm | Ed Coper",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/the-orwellian-machinery-critics-are-desperate-to-protect-is-the",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-09T01:04:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian Australia",
    "slug": "the-guardian-australia",
    "url": "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"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Critics of Australia’s 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 rein them in this week. “Labor is copying the Chinese Communist Party’s censorship playbook,”…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}