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Posted on 11/20/2025 6:24:28 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
From 10 December, social media companies will have to take "reasonable steps" to ensure that under-16s in Australia cannot set up accounts on their platforms and that existing accounts are deactivated or removed.
The government says the ban - a world-first policy popular with many parents - is aimed at reducing the "pressures and risks" children can be exposed to on social media, which come from "design features that encourage them to spend more time on screens, while also serving up content that can harm their health and wellbeing".
A study commissioned by the government earlier this year said 96% of children aged 10-15 used social media and that seven out of 10 of them had been exposed to harmful content and behaviour. This behaviour ranged from misogynistic material to fight videos and content promoting eating disorders and suicide.
One in seven also reported experiencing grooming-type behaviour from adults or older children, and more than half said they had been the victims of cyberbullying.
Children and parents will not be punished for infringing the ban - it is social media companies who are charged with enforcing it, and they face fines of up to $49.5m (US$32m, £25m) for serious or repeated breaches.
The government says these companies must take "reasonable steps" to keep kids off their platforms, and use age assurance technologies - without specifying which ones.
Critics argue that the ban, even if properly implemented, will not actually reduce online harm for children. Dating websites and gaming platforms are not included, and nor are AI chatbots, which have recently made headlines for allegedly encouraging children to commit suicide and for having "sensual" conversations with minors.
Others point out that teens who rely on social media for community will be left isolated …
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Smart kids will be running rings around it in no time.
Just a stealth way of getting a universal ID.
This is supposed to be the parents’ job.
Even the dumb ones will figure it out.
The Crown really doesn’t want people to learn and share truths.
Have do it so they can continue with the Global Warming Scam , they’ll ban everyone else later
Worked for my kids.
Government should not make this unilateral decision, this is the parents’ sphere of decision making.
Parental rights elimination
Digital id
There are overlapping multiple goals. Always more than one. Always.
Exactly.
A good way to get all those kids off their butts ... and out in the streets protesting the government.
They’ll just create their own clandestine sites.
“ it’s for the children.”
Correct.
Agreed.
for those commenting nit’s a parent’s job, don’t schools use computers, and maybe at times have their class connect with other schools or groups through computers? schools are a big part of how kids got into using computers and through that social media. been going on for decades.
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