US Formally Rebukes Australia's Digital Duty-of-Care Bill, Calls Algorithm Rules 'Extraterritorial Censorship'

The Trump administration filed a formal submission opposing Australia's Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill, which would force social media, gaming and AI-chatbot services to be 'safe by design' for under-18s and require an opt-out from personalised algorithmic feeds. US officials called it 'extraterritorial censorship of protected speech' and asked Canberra to exclude US firms — a rare public intervention that opens a new political front in Australia's tech-regulation push.