In a move that reframes the relationship between citizens and the digital systems that shape their attention, Australia's government has proposed granting social media users the right to disable the algorithms that govern what they see. The communications minister cast the current arrangement as a form of unregulated experimentation — tech companies continuously adjusting the invisible machinery of information without public consent or oversight. The proposal joins a growing global reckoning with who holds authority over the architectures of digital life, and whether individuals should have th