Australia is banning social media for kids under 16. How will it work?

BBC News ^ | November 20, 2025 | By Helen Livingstone

[coydog]

Smart kids will be running rings around it in no time.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Just a stealth way of getting a universal ID.

[Telepathic Intruder]

This is supposed to be the parents’ job.

[BenLurkin]

How will it work?

[Dutch Boy]

Even the dumb ones will figure it out.

[T.B. Yoits]

The Crown really doesn’t want people to learn and share truths.

[butlerweave]

Have do it so they can continue with the Global Warming Scam , they’ll ban everyone else later

[BobL]

Worked for my kids.

[Secret Agent Man]

Government should not make this unilateral decision, this is the parents’ sphere of decision making.

[Secret Agent Man]

Parental rights elimination

Digital id

There are overlapping multiple goals. Always more than one. Always.

[Larry Lucido]

Exactly.

[TigersEye]

A good way to get all those kids off their butts ... and out in the streets protesting the government.

[SkyDancer]

They’ll just create their own clandestine sites.

[Redcitizen]

“ it’s for the children.”

[No name given]

Correct.

[No name given]

Agreed.

[b4me]

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.

[ronnie raygun]

because they are afraid of what they might be seeing and hearing politically

[Mark17]

From 10 December, social media companies will have to take "reasonable steps"

Just out of curiosity, who makes the determination of what “reasonable steps” are?