Trump Slams Australia’s Social Media Crackdown as ‘Extortion’ The latest salvo in the US Australia trade war has little to do with tariffs and quotas and everything to do with something far more insidious: data control.
Last week, President Donald Trump criticized Australia's proposed algorithm opt out bill, labeling it a "form of extortion.
" While this may seem like just another skirmish in the tech trade war, it reveals a deeper truth about our increasingly digitized world.