通信部长阿尼卡·威尔斯可能修改有争议的网络安全权力，以争取反对党支持，并警告称AI聊天机器人正在争夺儿童的情感依恋。
Communications Minister Anika Wells may amend controversial online safety powers to win opposition support, and warns AI chatbots are coming for children's emotional attachment.
堪培拉 — 澳大利亚通信部长驳斥了其政府提出的网络安全法案构成审查的指控。“我们是在监管机器，而不是信息，”阿尼卡·威尔斯在POLITICO的堪培拉播客节目《Canberra Playbook》中表示。
CANBERRA — Australia’s communications minister has rejected accusations that her government’s proposed online safety laws amount to censorship. “We are regulating the machine here, not the message,” Anika Wells told POLITICO’s Canberra Playbook Podcast.
“我不认为任何人的言论自由取决于算法向14岁青少年推送饮食失调内容。”她的言论是对美国政府的回击，后者罕见地就该草案立法提交了意见，该立法计划于10月15日提交议会审议。
“I don’t think anybody’s free speech depends on an algorithm pushing eating disorder content to a 14-year-old.”The comments are a rebuke to the United States government, which made a rare submission on the draft legislation, due to be introduced to parliament Oct. 15.
威尔斯的回应是针对有关美国作家兼倡导者迈克尔·谢伦伯格前往澳大利亚，反对数字照护义务立法的报道。该立法将对科技公司施加新责任，要求其保护用户免受网络伤害。
Wells was responding to reports that American author and advocate Michael Shellenberger has traveled to Australia to campaign against the digital duty of care legislation, which would impose new responsibilities on technology companies to protect users from online harms.