In a moment when democracies are still searching for the language to govern digital life, Australia is moving to give its citizens something quietly radical: the right to choose how they are seen by the machine. Communications Minister Anika Wells has announced draft legislation that would compel major platforms — Meta, Google, TikTok — to offer users the ability to disable algorithmic feeds, framing the measure not as censorship but as a restoration of individual agency. The proposal arrives amid unresolved tensions from Australia's earlier under-16 social media ban, suggesting a government w