Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s
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On Wednesday, the lower house of the Australian parliament voted to pass legislation to ban social media for children under 16 years, and the Senate passed the bill on Friday.

Landmark legislation sees the Australian government committed to the novel step of child protection by banning social media for under sixteens.

  • shades@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    It’s still not entirely clear how the Australian government thinks they’re actually going to enforce this.

    <socialMediaOperators> Since identity verification checks for minors is an absolute nightmare security scenario we are deciding to pull all operations out of Australia.